Generally, no. Many widgets have action/ filter hooks where you can override certain pieces, but Widgets generally aren’t like Themes which can be overidden with Child Themes. Some widgets are written in such a way that they can be overridden, but that’d be on a case by case basis. Something like this you could declare … Read more
How do widgets embedded in a page access posts they should display? That’s not how widgets work, and implies there is a framework that provides posts to widgets. There is not. Widgets aren’t embedded either, and there is no data source that provides what they should display. Widgets decide that on their own. So if … Read more
Placing widgets via a MySQL or something MySQL abstracted via the global variable $wpdb that is an instance of the WPDB class is not trivial. That’s not because MySQL is something complicated or because $wpdb is useless at all but this has do something with the way the widget configuration is stored inside the mysql … Read more
Don’t use both wp_login() and wp_signon(). They do the same thing, but first one is deprecated Use the 2.8 widget API Put wp_signon() inside a function that you hook on the init tag (You can handle the errors in the widget() function)
You can do this with a query <ul> <?php global $post; $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘offset’=> 1, ‘category’ => 1 ); $myposts = get_posts( $args ); foreach( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?> <li><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/6376/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li> <?php endforeach; ?> </ul> source You can put that in your category page … Read more
What sort of custom markup do you need? Can you elaborate a little more?
I use Widget Logic at my blog. It is not most convenient solution around, but definitely one of the most flexible. Widgets can be displayed/hidden based on arbitrary PHP condition. Works great with conditional tags and when that is not enough you just write your own conditions and use them.
there no “id_base” key in $control_ops; from what I know it only accepts width/height. move it the id_base is the first argument you have there in WP_Widget()
Theory is simple – you just hook onto the the_content filter with a priority higher, then that of other plugin handlers: add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘insert_my_sidebar’, 9); And then in insert_my_sidebar function you insert your sidebar. But there is a caveat – actually not only user plugins, but also default filters have priority of 10. So by default … Read more
If possible, please provide links to the site and pages that display this issue. Since your second item seems to be a script – first step would be to verify is it being output in page source. Otherwise it is hard to guess is problem with script not echoed or script not running. PS there … Read more