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Post X of Y in single.php / sidebar.php

class MY_Post_Numbers { private $count = 0; private $posts = array(); public function display_count() { $this->init(); // prevent unnecessary queries $id = get_the_ID(); echo sprintf( ‘<div class=”post-counter”>Post number<span class=”num”>%s</span><span class=”slash”>/</span><span class=”total”>%s</span></div>’, $this->posts[$id], $this->count ); } private function init() { if ( $this->count ) return; global $wpdb; $posts = $wpdb->get_col( “SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status=”publish” … Read more

Sidebar Widget Registration without a name, how is it assigned to new named sidebar widget?

Try moving registration of Sidebar sidebar to be first. I had an impressions that widget should move to that special “unassigned” area in this situation, but maybe that only works between themes, not changes in same theme.

Get the sidebar ID in which the current widget was dropped

See this thread: Limit widget to certain sidebar?

Manual display of widget

I like the answer you found, but I thought I’d tack on another. You could create another sidebar area that’s only displayed on the front page, and then use the “Duplicate Widget” plugin to maintain two instances of a single plugin. It has slightly higher overhead, but becomes much easier to maintain for someone who … Read more

Registering Sidebars and Sidebar Widgets. Sidebar Widgets Not Displaying

Check your template file from your theme. There may be some widgets being added in there manually if no other widgets are enabled. If that’s the case modify the conditional statement in your sidebar template so your widgets are output after the defaults set there. @s_ha_dum basically got to the bottom of it.

Category specific months list in sidebar.php

you can use getarchives_where filter to get archives by category add_filter( ‘getarchives_where’, ‘my_archives_filter_function’, 10, 2 ); // your filter function replace YOUR CATEGORY ID with category term id e.g(3) function my_archives_filter_function($where) { global $wpdb; $where .” AND $wpdb->posts.ID IN (SELECT $wpdb->posts.ID FROM $wpdb->posts INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON ($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id … Read more

List children of second level sub page

Is this what you are after? <?php if($post->post_parent) { // if $post has parent than it is “Second level” and show its children. $children = wp_list_pages(“child_of=”.$post->post_parent.”&echo=0″); } else { // else it’s a “Top level” so display children & grand children? $children = wp_list_pages(“child_of=”.$post->ID.”&echo=0″); } if ($children) { echo “<ul>$children</ul>”; } Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages#List_subpages_even_if_on_a_subpage

Ban certain widgets from certain sidebars

You are overthinking it. The concept of widgets is designed to be transferable between widget area (AKA sidebars). If a widget is not tranferable it is just not a true wordpress widget. Now creating your own framework of widgets sound like a non pleasant idea. In addition to fighting the wordpress core code, you will … Read more

How to avoid widgets added to sidebar on theme activation?

Widgets are stored in the wp_options table ( assuming the database prefix is wp_ ). You can retrieve the option, and remove the widgets manually: // Get all the associated widgets $sidebar_widgets = get_option ( ‘sidebars_widgets’ ); // Check this specific sidebar if ( isset( $sidebar_widgets [ ‘lateral-header-sidebar’ ] ) ) { unset ( $sidebar_widgets … Read more

Problems with the sidebar args and wp_list_bookmarks

After a few var_dumps I know this: 1) When wp_list_bookmarks is called whithin WP_Widget_Links->widget The ‘class’ parameter is ignored because the ‘category_before’ parameter doesn’t have the %class wildcard. Instead ‘category_before’ will look as if ‘class’ where ‘widget_links’. This is how the function dynamic_sidebar set the $before_widget parameters for the widget once it gets called. Of … Read more

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