You could dynamically register sidebars. When you register sidebars, you could query for all of your animal pages, loop over all pages, and register a unique sidebar for each page. Adding a page would automatically create a sidebar for it. However – that’s a lot of sidebars. For something tightly coupled with the page content, … Read more
All widgets in the admin area get an id in the style widget-[global_counter]_[widget_key]-[widget_id], like widget-59_monkeyman_widget_shortcut-5 (installed widget) or widget-11_monkeyman_widget_shortcut-__i__ (an uninstalled widget in the list). If your widget key contains something unique for all your widgets (like your company name), you can use this and add a substring attribute CSS selector (which works in most … Read more
Update: 12/19/15 : Here’s a plugin on Github that I developed (using the method in answer I provided below) adding support for changing all widget to bootstrap components/styling. Original Answer I understand not wanting to use javascript, but it seems like overkill in my opinion to completely create a new widget just for the list-group … Read more
On a parallel thread over on the WordPress hacks forum, someone suggested using in_the_loop() and that works some of the time, with some plugins that use either the_content and/or the_excerpt, but not all of the time with all the plugins I’ve been testing against. Likewise, I’ve now done further testing using is_main_query() and that works … Read more
The cart widget isn’t showing because it’s configured to not show on the cart and checkout page. If you want to change that take a look at class-wc-widget-cart.php, there you find the following line: if ( is_cart() || is_checkout() ) return; Change it to: if ( is_cart() ) return; To show the widget on the … Read more
I’m sure there is a more elegant approach (I’d love to know about!). Anyhow: I’d like to offer a solution. You could create a default sidebar with default widgets and a custom sidebar with all available custom widgets. Then you use a combination of the following plugins: simple fields and widget logic to only show … Read more
Load at the sidebar bottom In most of the sidebars, you’ll find the call to the wp_meta() action hook, where you can hook into the (mostly bottom) of a sidebar. Load on top of your sidebar The function get_sidebar( $name ) calls the sidebar you want in your template (this allows to have different sidebars). … Read more
Hi John: I think this is what you are looking for (I’d explain the code be I think it’s self-explanatory; let me know if not): <?php add_filter(‘dynamic_sidebar_params’,’my_dynamic_sidebar_params’); function my_dynamic_sidebar_params($params) { $sidebar_id = $params[0][‘id’]; $sidebar_widgets = wp_get_sidebars_widgets(); $last_widget_id = end($sidebar_widgets[$sidebar_id]); if ($last_widget_id==$params[0][‘widget_id’]) $params[0][‘before_widget’] = str_replace(‘ class=”‘,’ class=”last_widget ‘,$params[0][‘before_widget’]); return $params; }
Your best option is to get a random post author which is a user ID so here is a function to do just that: function get_random_author_wpa91320(){ global $wpdb; $id = $wpdb->get_var(” SELECT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type=”post” AND post_status=”publish” ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 “); return $id; } And once you have that function in … Read more
Defining new sidebar with in your functions.php <?php if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) { register_sidebar(array( ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</li>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’ )); }?> Once these are functions are defined, you will notice the extra sidebar appear in the WordPress Dashboard under the Appearance > Widgets option. … Read more