It doesn’t really get any better than the Jetpack Infinite Scroll Documentation. This is about as easy and user friendly as any of us could make it, and far more in depth. I did this to one of my blogs recently, and it basically uses AJAX (Asynchronous Java script) to call a bit of PHP … Read more
WordPress 5.8 added the ability to add Blocks to sidebars. Blocks do not use the title and markup defined for a sidebar. They just use the normal HTML they would use in the editor. “Legacy” widgets can still be added, and should still have the option to enter a title and use the markup defined … Read more
IMO this ia a good approach. However one thing I would focus is instead of embedding the data into the post body, you may insert custom fields in that post. This may help you sorting posts based on color, make etc or what ever your fields are.
Here’s a complete example of the projects widget based on your code. This widget will allow users to specify the number of project posts to display and will also allow a word limit to be enforced for the content. Note that I went with using a word limit for the content instead of a character … Read more
After some digging, I’ve arrived at a solution (explained in the comments) – function change_widget_configuration() { $options = get_option(‘widget_some-widget’); // retrieve the options for all occurrences of the named widget* $widget_number = 3; // the id number of the specific occurrence of the widget whose options you wish to alter (this can be obtained simply … Read more
you can register a new sidebar, add it to the menu area and then add a widget to it: you can register a sidebar by adding this function to your functions.php: register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Site Stat Widget’), ‘id’ => ‘stat-widget’, ‘description’ => __( ‘The Site Stat Widget’), ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget-container %2$s”>’, … Read more
Shortcodes are not supported in the Text Widget by default. Add the following to your functions.php: // Enable shortcodes in WP Text Widget add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘shortcode_unautop’); add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’, 11); Instead of wrapping the video URL in the shortcode, use the following in the Text Widget: For more info on the shortcode, see the Codex.
First, there is no such thing as a widget’s data. This is because a widget may be included in several places on a site. So the data belongs not to the widget, but to the instance of that widget. For this reasons, every widget gets an ID. If you want to know what the ID … Read more
Instead you should consider using a shortcode. This is exactly the problem that shortcodes try to solve. By default, Widgets don’t process shortcodes, but that can be easily changed. add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’ ); This would allow you to use any shortcodes in the Widget text area. Next would be to get the PHP code you … Read more
Where are the widgets settings stored? The widget settings are stored in the wp_options table. You can retrieve it with print_r( get_option( ‘widget_x’ ) ); where x is the $id_base input parameter of the WP_Widget class constructor. If $id_base is empty, then it uses the widget class name in lower case letters, without the prefixes: … Read more