You probably need to use output buffering, if I understand your question correctly. Try something like this: ob_start(); dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar-id’); $sidebar = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); That will put the output of the sidebar into the variable $sidebar, which you can then process and return from your filter on the page content.
The contents of dynamic_sidebar are pulled from the widgets associated with this “Sidebar” aka “Widget Area” in wp-admin, as @s_ha_dum answered. There is no template file for the sidebar itself. Visit /wp-admin/widgets.php under Appearance -> Widgets and find the widget area titled homepage-infobox. You be able to add/remove widgets and possibly make changes to the … Read more
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 … Read more
There is a widget_display_callback hook, which you can use to override the widget based on the sidebar and the widget (return false when inappropriate): http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/widgets.php?rev=15590#L180
Unfortunately, the switch_to_blog() method isn’t going to work for this purpose. switch_to_blog() is really only a partial switch – it makes some modifications to $wpdb that help with database queries. But it’s not a complete switch in the way you might imagine. In particular, dynamic_sidebar() depends on global called $wp_registered_sidebars. This global is populated by … Read more
You can do it using Widget Context plugin or Widget Logic plugin. They work fine. I prefer Widget Context because it has more flexibility.
After some research and based on the answer from Eugene Manuilov I made a function that adds custom classes to widgets in a specific sidebar (‘sidebar-bottom’ in my case) based on the number of widgets set in that sidebar. This will suit perfectly in horizontal sidebars and themes based on twitter bootstrap that need spanX … Read more
I just found the answer and instead of putting this in the Title: <!–:en–>My English Title<!–:–><!–:fr–>My French Title<!–:–> We need to put this code: [:en]My English Title[:fr]My French Title and qTranslate does the rest 🙂
UPDATE: Based upon the update of the question I think I need to explicitly state that what is asked in the question can be done with the answer below, just used custom fields in the “Car” custom post type for each of the items you want displayed on all pages for a given car. If … Read more
Widget options are stored in the options table under ‘sidebars_widgets’ as a serialized array. See this post for a longer explanation. Changing the field per PHPMyAdmin is not recommended, use PHP, get_option() and update_option() instead, WordPress will take care for correct serialization then.