Use this code to require the file from your theme’s functions.php file: require get_template_directory() . ‘includes/dashboard.php’; For the sake of completeness (and sanity) my dashboard.php file lives here: my-theme/includes/dashboard.php I took a closer look at the original issue, and I think what’s happening is that the require statement is silently failing because the wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php file … Read more
It’s hard to tell the order in which these functions are called, because they’re used in different contexts. WP_Widget class has 4 methods: __construct – it constructs the widget, so it’s always run first widget – it should output the content of given widget, so it’s used on front-end in sidebar, when the widget is … Read more
One way to do this would be to filter out all the other widgets in the sidebar while calling the dynamic_sidebar output. Updated to take widget index OR ID slug function custom_output_widget( $sidebar_id, $widget_id ) { global $custom_widget_target; // if ( !$sidebar_id ) { // $sidebars_widgets = get_option( ‘sidebars_widgets’ ); // print_r( $sidebars_widgets ); return; … Read more
You can use the wp_meta hook: function extend_meta() { echo ‘<li><a href=”‘ . get_bloginfo(‘atom_url’) . ‘” title=”‘ . esc_attr( __( ‘Syndicate this site using Atom’ ) ) . ‘”>’ . __(‘Entries Atom Feed’) . ‘</a></li>’; } add_action( ‘wp_meta’, ‘extend_meta’ );
RSS widget uses fetch_feed() function, which is setting default cache lifetime to 43200 seconds (12 hours). Since this value is filtered it can be overridden (as can feed cache overall). I did encounter plugin once, whose developer citing performance reasons completely disabled feed caching for all feeds.
Yes, you can add widgets through plug-ins the same way you add them through themes. So move the widget code from your functions.php file and drop it inside a custom plug-in. You’ll get the same functionality without the need to modify your theme.
This code detects whether a title has been set, and if not, it changes the before_widget argument. add_filter( ‘widget_display_callback’, ‘wpse4213_widget_display_callback’, 10, 3 ); function wpse4213_widget_display_callback( $instance, $widget, $args ) { if ( empty( $instance[‘title’] ) ) { $args[‘before_widget’] = ‘<div class=”container”><div class=”content”>’; $widget->widget( $args, $instance ); return false; } return $instance; } This code works … Read more
Sidebar functionality doesn’t handle wrapping container, you need to add that on template level. Here is example markup of sidebar-primary.php template (taken from Hybrid theme and simplified a bit): if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘primary’ ) ) : ?> <div id=”primary” class=”sidebar aside”> <?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘primary’ ); ?> </div><!– #primary .aside –> <?php endif; ?> Also I … Read more
yes. preset widgets: Possible to preset a widget’s contents via a plugin script? post your widget code here if you need specific instructions
Check out this post I wrote on the wordpress.org board… it has some functioning code you can work from: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-first-and-last-css-classes-for-sidebar-widgets