The customizer needs the sidebar to be “displayed” in order to detect its existence on the page. In your code you display the sidebar only if it is “active” which means that it has at least one widget in it, otherwise when no widgets are included it is not displayed and therefore the customizer can … Read more
Problem solved by this code below: <?php if (is_active_sidebar(‘extra_widget_1’)) { ?> <li> <?php dynamic_sidebar(‘extra_widget_1’); ?> </li> <?php } ?>
More than likely this is an issue with the register_sidebar() call in functions.php. Look for before_widget and after_widget. The code below is the default usage. ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</li>’, Note: This will alter all of the widgets within the sidebar, not just the TextWidget.
$this is the widget object, an instance of the relevant widget class. It includes things like the widget ID and class identifiers which are required for the method that generate the input id and name attribute in the snippet $instance is the array which includes the widget setting. The settings ae not stored as part … Read more
In short: It depends. Widget go into a widget area. But that also means that when you create a widget area any widget can be put there as well as any number of widgets. So if you’d make the logo a widget a user could put twenty different widgets in that spot, including stuff that … Read more
@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