What are the downsides of using bootstrap in plugin development?

Yes, there are clearly challenges to using such a public dependency as Bootstrap, especially in a public plugin: version conflicts; styling conflicts; script conflicts. To minimize possibility of conflict and breakage you would need to consider following extra steps: Importing just the necessary Bootstrap styles into your stylesheet and making them specific to only markup … Read more

How to add homepage Widget?

I’ve had good luck with the Widget Logic plugin. It lets you use template-style logic for each widget. It’s not quite the same as adding a whole new admin page just for conditional widgets (you would need to create and register a new sidebar, etc), but it’s great for the quick-and-dirty ‘get it in there … Read more

Using Conditional Tags to restrict something to 1 user?

I don’t know the plugin, but with a rapid eye on it, it seems that what you want is not, but you can rely on widget_content filter fired by the plugin you are using. So, in your theme function.php put: if ( function_exists(‘widget_logic_redirected_callback’) ) add_filter(‘widget_content’, ‘my_widget_for_user’, 10, 2); function my_widget_for_users ($widget_content, $widget_id) { $allowed_users = … Read more

How to delete Jetpack Widgets from the Widgets page in admin panel [closed]

This is not an alteration to the Plugin itself, it’s just a way to revert what is already done. So, to Activate a plugin there’s a WordPress function: register_widget(‘Class_of_the_Widget’); As we can unregister the default plugins using the unregister_widget() function, we can use the same function for JetPack plugin’s widgets too. Get into the /wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/widgets, … Read more

How do I include the sidebar (with Widgets) in a custom theme?

Your issue is the dynamic sidebar being called is not matching the ID of what is registered. Matching: <?php if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-widgets’ ) ) : ?> <div id=”secondary” class=”widget-area” role=”complementary”> <?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘sidebar-widgets’ ); ?> </div><!– #secondary –> <?php endif; ?> Register Sidebar if (function_exists(‘register_sidebar’)) { register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => ‘Sidebar Widgets’, ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-widgets’, … Read more

How to hide sidebar widgets in all pages except Hompage?

Simple, quick option: use a plugin called “dynamic widgets“; it provides an interface the where you can specify the conditions under which each of your widgets should appear. Slightly more involved option is to edit your theme, so that it has two sidebars, both registered as widget areas, and include one of them only on … Read more