You’re almost there, except each widget’s settings are stored separately from the sidebars_widgets option, which just stores widget “instances”. Try out the following function – you’ll still need to use register_sidebar, but it eases the pain for then pre-registering widgets on those sidebars. What it also does is ensure that any existing widgets & their … Read more
If your AJAX Url is conversion.php it will most likely point to yourdomain.com/conversion.php. Is your file in that location? Looks like not, and I guess you don’t have a 404.php, and in that case your request gets directed to your index.php, that’s why you get the contents of your homepage. If your file is in … Read more
I finally found an answer using WordPress rewrites. The whole code is at the end and can be pasted in functions.php. There is just one parameter that you have to change $rules = cpt_generate_date_archives(‘news’, $wp_rewrite); news is the name of the post_type. So I added a second line to show how to have two archives. … Read more
I changed the name of the back-end widget reference to “carousel_edit_url_for_newspro/backendwnisoform.php” in order to isolate the problem down to its essentials. The code below works, praise G-d. I should then be able to use this sort of code in the main stream of the program development to get the drop-down menus to work fine, G-d … Read more
If you are going to display a particular instance of a widget you are going to have to know which instance that is. Hard-coding that instance value is not flexible, certainly, but unless you have some other way to identify the widget I don’t see an option. If you can work out some other way … Read more
In my opinion you are doing it so complicated. I would rather do a classic query and then through css it made into 2-column. function top_tags() { $tags = get_the_tags(); if($tags) { $output=”<h4>Top tags</h4> <ul class=”top_tags”>”; foreach($tags as $tag) $output .= ‘<li><a href=”‘.get_tag_link($tag->term_id).'” title=”‘.$tag->name.'”>’.$tag->name.'</a></li>’; $output .= ‘</ul>’; echo $output; } } and your css .top_tags … Read more
Read: SELECT_a_Column $sql = “SELECT ‘liters’ FROM ” . $wpdb->prefix . “tfp”; $liters = $wpdb->get_col( $sql ); if( $liters ) { foreach( $liters as $liter ) { echo ‘<option value=”‘ . $liter . ‘”>’ . $liter . ‘</option>’; } }
Widget Logic http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/ Also Query Posts Widget is very useful http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/03/15/query-posts-widget-wordpress-plugin
It turns out that the problem was that I de-registered jQuery in my functions.php file. I re-registered the correct version of jQuery by calling wp_register_script(‘jquery’, …) and suddenly, everything worked perfectly.
They’re in the rather obviously named /wp-includes/default-widgets.php file.