I can’t really speak to best practice, since I’m relatively new to WordPress (~1 year). But I am a website developer and I have been hacking around various widgets trying to make them behave the way I want. Here are my top 4 irritations: widgets/plugins that don’t use wp_enqueue_style(). How can I get rid of … Read more
// Out of stock for general woocommerce – might help someone function product_in_stock($post, $product) { if (!$product->is_in_stock()) { $STOCK = TRUE; return $STOCK; } else { return false; } } function check_if_out_of_stock(){ global $post,$product; $stock = product_in_stock($post,$product); $output=”<div class=””; $output .= $stock?”instock”:”outofstock”; $output .= ‘”>’; echo $output; } add_action( ‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item’, ‘check_if_out_of_stock’); function close_out_of_stock(){ echo “</div>”; … Read more
There’s no need to nest classes (and you can’t anyway), you just create a new instance of the class. The code below would automatically call the My_Widget class to create a widget based on your existing code. Class plugin_name { // Call the widget class public function __construct(){ $this->widget = new My_Widget(); $this->widget->getWidget(); } } … Read more
I think the rather simplistic approach would be: copy the whole WP_Widget_Categories from wp-includes/default-widgets.php, and paste it to your functions.php. In there, you could modify the output by customizing this part of the class: class WP_Widget_Recent_Posts extends WP_Widget { … <?php echo $before_widget; ?> <?php if ( $title ) echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; … Read more
You can list all the attributes of a product by putting the following code in a template file: global $product; $product->list_attributes();
Barring the discovery of a plugin that does this already (I’m not aware of any that specifically do what you want) you’ll need to create your own. add_meta_box and add_filter(‘widget_display_callback’, $instance, $widget, $args) should be the bulk of what you need
Recently, I’ve found a very nice post, Using the Google Analytics API in WordPress. It’s a full blown tutorial and signed by a core contributor, no less. In this post we’ll talk about the API, authentication and firing requests to the API using the WordPress HTTP methods, about understanding and parsing the response and finally, … Read more
Unless I’m misunderstanding you, you should just need to set the publication date of the post in the future and “Publish” it. This should walk you through you what you need to know: http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/14/publishing-your-post-at-a-later-date/
The easiest way to do this is via dynamic_sidebar() <?php if ($a == $b) // Your $_SESSION stuff dynamic_sidebar( ‘Right Sidebar’ ); ?> Any widgets contained in the “Right Sidebar” will now be loaded based on your condition. You should use this with register_sidebar() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar
Should I rather go with Drupal or is this possible in WordPress? It is possible with WordPress. But also with Drupal. Or with Ruby on Rails. Or with Zend. Or with … whatever programing language you can imagine. I have no idea where to start. I want to create a widget. WordPress has a dedicated … Read more