When registering a sidebar, you can use certain placeholders for the widget classes. Here’s an example taken from the codex: ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, It’s the lack of %1$s and %2$s that is causing your issues. When in doubt always read the documentation on the codex and the developer hub/handbooks
(Update #2) Here‘s the full widget class that I previously shared via my comment. =) In that class, the checkbox1 field is default to not checked, while the rest of the checkbox fields are checked by default. (Update #1. Note that this update does not use your example code, but hopefully this answer would be … Read more
Perhaps you could consider using WP REST API to get the posts with a XMLHttpRequest in javascript instead of trying to get php work on .html file(s). From the REST handbook, The WordPress REST API provides an interface for applications to interact with your WordPress site by sending and receiving data as JSON (JavaScript Object … Read more
However WordPress does it, it can’t peer inside BuddyBoss if BuddyBoss decides to implement its own system ( and almost all the pagebuilder plugins or bespoke systems do ). Fundamentally responsibility on the frontend falls into these buckets: the theme filters blocks/shortcodes/widgets nav menus plugins generated UIs such as ACF field layouts, WP Bakery, Elementor, … Read more
@Scott B, It looks like they are using a related posts query based on category. When a single Item (post) is being displayed the query looks up the category id then displays posts from the same category. Add The following code to your sidebar or even to the bottom of single.php depending on where you … Read more
How about the Rich Widget?
For a non-WP site, Developer’s Guide – Google AJAX Feed API – Google Code is easy to use.
It is a little bulky for complex widgets, but you can call any widget in any place (no sidebar required) with the_widget() function.
Not sure what you mean by ‘display all categories’, i thought it does that by default? Anyways…you can hook into it, using the following filter hooks: widget_categories_args widget_categories_dropdown_args Both hooks pass the query args to get the categories as an array. The default is array(‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘show_count’ => $c, ‘hierarchical’ => $h), wherein $c … Read more
If I had to venture a guess, the problem is that your first register_sidebar() gets called in functions.php, and hooked into widgets_init, but the second one gets called in the head, and therefore NOT hooked into widgets_init. I don’t know the impact of registering a sidebar other than at widgets_init. Is there any particular reason … Read more