One way around this I’ve discovered since posting the above question is to instantiate inline via WP_Widget::form(), with wp_enqueue_script() loading the necessary JavaScript (exactly as mentioned above) — except, and here’s the key part, load the JavaScript in the header instead of the footer (fifth argument of wp_enqueue_script()). Which makes a lot of sense now … Read more
To quote the Codex The return value should be used to determine whether to display a static sidebar. This ensures that your theme will look good even when the Widgets plug-in is not active. So essentially you can use is to display other content if the user has not activated any widgets in the sidebar.
There actually are filters coming with WP 3.9+: do_action( ‘dynamic_sidebar_before’, $index, false ); do_action( ‘dynamic_sidebar_after’, $index, false ); apply_filters( ‘dynamic_sidebar_has_widgets’, false, $index ); The 2nd argument indicates if the sidebar has widgets. Current workaround: Hook into sanitize_title() as this will hold the current sidebar name/ID. Then hook into wp_get_sidebars_widgets() as this is where you already … Read more
You don’t need to worry to much about your query as there is not much you can do about it. You can unfortunately not just only query categies, post titles and images natively using WP_Query. Post categories needs to be called separately inside the loop, just like featured images. If you dig deeper into core, … Read more
As per the last comment, this is the correct answer: $paged = get_query_var( ‘page’, 1 ); if(1 != $paged) …
I suggest to use the Object Cache API or Transients API, whatever fits better your needs. A very quick example with object cache: // helper function function get_my_object() { $object = wp_cache_get( ‘my_object’ ); if ( false === $object ) { $args = array( …. ); $object = new WP_Query( $args ); wp_cache_set( ‘my_object’, $object … Read more
I checked your code in my install. It works, except that you made a typo (missing backslash): [icon]cog[/icon] Few notes: You must make sure to enqueue the Font Awsesome stylesheet. You must close the shortcode, like: [icon]cog[/icon] Remember to escape the class name with esc_attr(). Another shortcode idea: [fa icon=”cog”]
This bolds the first words (or entire word, if only one) of my widget titles: add_filter( ‘widget_title’, function ( $title ) { return preg_replace(“/^(.+?)( |$)/”, “<strong>$0</strong>”, $title, 1); }, 10, 1); Breaking down the regex pattern, we have: ^ is the start of the line (.+?) is anything between our next group (in this context, … Read more
One could e.g. get the widget blocks data with: $widget_blocks = get_option( ‘widget_block’ ); and then loop through the array and run has_block() on the contant part, e.g. like (untested): function is_active_block_widget_wpse( $blockname ) $widget_blocks = get_option( ‘widget_block’ ); foreach( (array) $widget_blocks as $widget_block ) { if ( ! empty( $widget_block[‘content’] ) && has_block( $blockname, … Read more
Maybe you can test with the plugin RSSImport, this has two different parser and more flexibility and also an debug-function for locate problems. The feed ist valid and I think, you must use this with a widget.