By “install” your widget, I’m assuming you mean “automatically add the new widget to the sidebar for your user after the plugin gets ‘activated’”. (Because if you activate the plugin, which also contains a widget, your widget should be visible in the widgets area immediately, without any more work needed). Jordan Bosch has a great … Read more
Yes, the types of customizations you are enumerating are persistent to the site, regardless of theme changes. They are indeed commonly recommended to be contained in a plugin. Personally I consider there is exception from the rule when theme is uniquely developed to the site and de-facto is site project. However I am tad in … Read more
A contact form is pure plugin stuff. It has to survive a theme switch. Put it into a plugin and prepare your stylesheet for the common possible positions.
if your theme have not search-form.php file then you will create the file and add the custom css there. Because search widget is calling the get_search_form() function. First it will search the search-from.php file from activated theme folder. If there have no file then it will call wp’s default search form. See the Codex
you can either use the !important property or ensure that your style definition has precedence by making it more specific. http://www.google.com/search?q=css+specificity
I think it’s pretty self-explanatory, see the SE flair page. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/flair Simply copy the provided HTML and paste it into the appropriate template file. I didn’t down vote, but i can understand why, this is really basic copy and paste HTML..
archive.php is used to display author, search, category, tag and date archives. As clicking on a calendar day will take you to the date archive for that day, then the file you’re looking for is archive.php. More specifically, WordPress will check for these files in this order, stopping when it finds one of these files … Read more
Sounds like your widget written in the old (pre 2.8) style rather than using the widget class. If that’s the case, you need to add code in a few different places to handle multiple instances (it’s not a simple option you can turn on or off). Check out this page in the Codex, and this … Read more
I have recently written a widget that Gets all the terms from the build in taxonomy category and adds them in dropdown in the widget Stores the selected category and uses that category in a custom WP_Query to get and display posts from the selected category You can look through it and adjust as needed: … Read more
Below is the code you need. Your issue could be that you’re not first setting up the variable $display_options to contain your options, or that you not asking if the option is set. add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘arphabet_widgets_init’); function arphabet_widgets_init() { $options = get_option(‘muffin_options’); if(isset($display_options[‘header_layout’]) && $display_options[‘header_layout’] == ‘1’) { register_widget(‘arphabet_widget_1’); } if(isset($display_options[‘header_layout’]) && $display_options[‘header_layout’] == ‘1’) { … Read more