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
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