I am taking the core of the question to be: “… I’m not able to retrieve the widget class name”
You will need to check the global
variable $wp_registered_widgets
to fill in the missing information. This proof-of-concept code should give you the idea. The code assumes a sidebar named sidebar-1
. You will have to adjust that.
global $wp_registered_widgets;
$widgets = wp_get_sidebars_widgets();
var_dump($widgets['sidebar-1']); // dump the data
foreach ($widgets['sidebar-1'] as $widget) {
var_dump($wp_registered_widgets[$widget]); // dump the data
}
For more guidance, take a look at how dynamic_sidebar
works, which is basically what I did to work out the above.
Untested, but this was interesting enough that I mocked up some more complete code:
global $wp_registered_widgets;
$i = 1;
$widgets = wp_get_sidebars_widgets();
$widgets = $widgets['homepage-1'];
if ( have_posts() ) {
while ( have_posts() ) {
the_post();
if ($i%3 == 0){
echo "<h1>WIDGET #".($i%3)."</h1>";
$cn = $wp_registered_widgets[$widgets[$i%3]]['callback'][0];
$cn = get_class($cn);
the_widget($cn,$widgets[$i%3]);
}
get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
$i++;
}
_s_paging_nav();
} else {
get_template_part( 'content', 'none' );
}