A client of mine recently used a plug-in similar to Widget Context to accomplish this. Rather than create different sidebars you just define what contexts you want your widgets to show up in. So if you have a set of widgets you want to show up on a specific page, you mark them to only … Read more
There are (at least) two (2) ways to approach this: You can query the second database which will require you to maintain the database credentials in two places, or at least in an include file, or You could create a simple JSON feed for your photo blog and consume the feed on your main blog … Read more
You just need to use the alternate syntax for foreach. From the php manual: The foreach construct provides an easy way to iterate over arrays. foreach works only on arrays and objects, and will issue an error when you try to use it on a variable with a different data type or an uninitialized variable. … Read more
If i understand correctly you are trying to display a list of child pages of a page in a widget, if so then first check if you are on a page using the conditional tag is_page() then you can use $wp_query->get_queried_object_id() like t31os has pointed out so your widget display function should look like this: … Read more
Widgets DO appear in the Customizer, but only if you are on the page that they are used on. For example, I have a sidebar for the Archive page. When I’m in the Customizer and on the homepage, that sidebar doesn’t appear. But if I navigate to an archive page while in the Customizer, it … Read more
If I understand your question correctly then use are asking why is_home() is false when you are viewing the URL /tools/example-tool/? If I understand your question the answer is simply that is_home() is not true for Custom Post Types. Actually is_home() should never be true except for 1.) when on the home page list of … Read more
You will need to create more sidebars in your functions.php file and then edit the page templates to call the sidebar you want. Adding sidebars Go in to your functions.php file. You should see some sidebars already being registered. The code will look something like this: //Adds default sidebar if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(); To … Read more
You’ll have to edit the code for the Recent Posts widget or create your own version based on the default. The code is in the wp-includes/default-widgets.php file around line 513. But since you should never make modifications to core, my recommendation would be to copy the code to create your own My Custom Recent Posts … Read more
The parameters are given (as an array) as the first argument provided to the widget method. The second argument, $instance, holds the options for that particular instance of the widget. My usual set up is: function widget($args, $instance){ //Extract the widget-sidebar parameters from array extract($args, EXTR_SKIP); echo $before_widget; echo $before_title; //Display title as stored in … Read more
Use the ‘Name’ parameter in your register_sidebar call. E.g., see the following code in the default Twenty Ten theme, line 351. function twentyten_widgets_init() { // Area 1, located at the top of the sidebar. register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Primary Widget Area’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘id’ => ‘primary-widget-area’, ‘description’ => __( ‘The primary widget area’, ‘twentyten’ … Read more