You’re looking for custom fields. Widgets are, generally, meant to be used for far more static content. Pages have custom fields enabled by default. You might not see them in the editor because I think they’re also hidden by default. Click ‘Screen Options’ to make sure they’re turned on. When you create the custom field, … Read more
For shortcodes you have to return the output for it to be written out where the shortcode appears. Either turn your HTML into a PHP string rather than breaking out of the PHP tags or you can use PHPs output buffering methods like so: ob_start(); ?> <div id=”player_<?php echo $id; ?>” class=”video_player”><a href=”http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/”>Get the Flash … Read more
A possible solution would be to enable shortcodes in the Text Widget. add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’, 11 ); Then put the same shortcode (i.e.: “[business_hours]“) in all text widgets, and all of them will display the same content. It’s even possible to add some Conditionals Tags inside the shortcode definition to show different things according to … Read more
Widget areas are the wrong tools for what you need. They are built to offer a choice. Breaking that would be very difficult … and hard to understand for the user. Alternative: Use a custom setting, for example in wp-admin/options-general.php where the tagline and the site title is. There is even a hook for such … Read more
Filter widget_text (for the text) widget_title (for the title) Example function add_smiley($content) { $new_content=””; $new_content.= $content . ‘:)’; return $new_content; } add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘add_smiley’); Note that this works only for the content so not if you have a widget with only a title. Reference http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1385954/do-wordpress-widget-or-sidebar-hooks-exist https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=wordpress+widget
Add a widget area to your single.php, front-page.php, home.php or whatever you want.. template’s theme file. Than at the back-end go to Appearance > Widgets and move the widget to the widget area you just created.
The answer is mostly no. The “enhanced” text widget was designed to work like the post editor as much as possible, including autop which might break whatever HTML that can not stand the conversion of lines into paragraphs. Several people have released plugins to restore the former functionality, but 4.8.1 will also include an “code” … Read more