widgets

Trigger Submit Event when Widget is added to Sidebar

Based off the example @mrwweb provided above and some additional code, here is an answer that works. This answer forces a widget to save when a widget is added to a sidebar. It finds all the “Save” buttons and triggers their click event thus saving the widget. The count variable is used to stop an … Read more

List authors with posts in a category

This can become a quite an expensive operation which can seriously damage page load time. At this stage, your code is quite expensive. Lets look a better way to tackle this issue. What we need to do is to minimize the time spend in db, and to do this, we will only get the info … Read more

How to add a text widget during theme activation

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

How to have Multiple Archives Widgets, one archive widget per category (in a different page)?

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

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