@Volomike, When you register a sidebar in your themes functions it will be active in the dashboard. If no widgets are added to your sidebars WordPress will add the default widgets. You can prevent WordPress from adding the default widgets by unregistering them: // Remove WP default Widgets // WP 2.8 function using $widget_class if … Read more
I am using Hybrid Tabs (mostly dealing with Hybrid theme): it is light and robust clean code and inline documentation easy to create custom tabs by code (via callback function) not so easy if you want to customize tabs in admin (I had coded special sidebar for myself that exposes widgets in it as available … Read more
<?php global $_wp_additional_image_sizes; print ‘<pre>’; print_r( $_wp_additional_image_sizes ); print ‘</pre>’;
Solution : hover on the title bar of your widget, then click configure Don’t ask me why this works like this but it does.
Clearing things up First, there’s a slight misunderstanding. wp_dashboard_setup is an action and not a filter. If it would be a filter, it would have one or multiple arguments and would need to return the first one. How-To #1 For an example of this action, see the following mu-plugin I use: <?php /** * Plugin … Read more
The widget operates in a different scope than the functions.php. You could use two different approaches to get around that. Make the variable global (put it into the top scope): // functions.php $GLOBALS[‘var_name’] = ‘hello’; // widget echo $GLOBALS[‘var_name’]; But that is risky: any other script can change the variable now accidentally, and it is … Read more
Huh. It had never actually occurred to me to use widget instance as cache. I hadn’t ever seen such implementation either. This is quite an original idea, and as such it is hard to accurately point out benefits and issues with implementation. For starters update() doesn’t actually save anything, it just used as check for … Read more
You should do it with after_setup_theme action: function remove_inactive_widgets() { $sidebars_widgets = get_option( ‘sidebars_widgets’ ); $sidebars_widgets[‘wp_inactive_widgets’] = array(); update_option( ‘sidebars_widgets’, $sidebars_widgets ); } add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘remove_inactive_widgets’ );
This is a known issue and will be taken care of soon, assuming you are using the “Twenty Eleven” theme: see this link. The bundled Twenty Eleven theme has some styling issues for pages with sidebars (See Trac ticket #36510)
Thank you Dave Romsey and Mark Kaplun for pointing out about not using HTML ID in WordPress Widget. I finally find a solution for my need. Solution: We need to add a preset variables into all of the 3 functions (widget, form, update). In my codes, they are called “spotlight_image_link1, spotlight_image_link2, etc”. Then in the … Read more