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Can I display the widget admin in the page admin?

If I understand well your want to show the widgets adding and removing interface inside a meta box. An easy, -a little dirty- way is using an iframe: function metaboxed_widgets_admin() { if ( ! current_user_can( ‘edit_theme_options’ ) ) return; add_meta_box(‘metaboxed_widgets’, __(‘Widgets’), ‘metaboxed_widgets_admin_cb’, ‘page’); } add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘metaboxed_widgets_admin’ ); function metaboxed_widgets_admin_cb() { if ( ! current_user_can( … Read more

Limit widget to a specific registered sidebar

My jquery knowledge is still almost non existent, so I’m not sure if the solution works that was suggested by @Howdy_McGee in comments. Anyways, just as matter of proper reference, from the link just replace ‘your_widget’ with name of your widget in the code below (two places). ‘sortreceive’ event is only called when widget is … Read more

Disable Specific Widgets on Selected Pages of a WordPress Website?

Take a look at this plugin, WidgetLogic. From the description: This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called “Widget logic” that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on. I’ve used it successfully.

How to add a filter to all widget output

There is another thread on here that discusses a workaround. Well… the familiar php workaround when a function does not provide a “get to variable” output actually… use ob_start: http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php to just capture the output and manipulate it before sending it on its way. Leads on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%2Bwordpress+sidebar+%2Bob-start+

Need to create a Theme demo site that features multiple themes

what about a plugin like: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-switcher/

What is this instance variable doing in the Widgets class

$instance holds the data stored for this widget instance as an array. You could use the same widget multiple times, and each would get different data. get_field_name() and get_field_id() returns name/id attributes for that widget. They are unique for each widget, but do not depend on the data. That’s why they do not have to … Read more

How to delete cached transients from a widget instance properly?

Use a widget cache and forget the actual number of active widgets. In your widget add this to your method widget(): public function widget( $args, $instance ) { // get the cache $cache = wp_cache_get( ‘UNIQUE_WIDGET_IDENTIFIER’, ‘widget’ ); if ( !is_array( $cache ) ) $cache = array(); if ( ! isset ( $args[‘widget_id’] ) ) … Read more

Using add_filter() in Widgets

<?php /** * Display the actual Widget * * @param Array $args * @param Array $instance */ public function widget($args, $instance){ … $wcss = apply_filters( ‘my-filter-name’, $wcss ); … } ?> To create your own filter hook just use the function “apply_filters” then as you mentioned add a function in your constructor i.e. function __constructor() … Read more

Widget to display custom taxonomy tag cloud

Don’t know of any but you can easily create your own: <?php add_action(“widgets_init”, array(‘Widget_Custom_tax_tag_cloud’, ‘register’)); class Widget_Custom_tax_tag_cloud { function control(){ echo ‘No control panel’; } function widget($args){ echo $args[‘before_widget’]; echo $args[‘before_title’] . ‘Your widget title’ . $args[‘after_title’]; $cloud_args = array(‘taxonomy’ => ‘Your taxonomy here’); wp_tag_cloud( $cloud_args ); echo $args[‘after_widget’]; } function register(){ register_sidebar_widget(‘Widget name’, array(‘Widget_Custom_tax_tag_cloud’, … Read more

Moving WordPress.com theme and widget settings to self-hosted site?

First off, check if the theme is available in wordpress.org themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ If it’s not, find the name of the theme developer and contact them. Many developers of wordpress.com themes are happy for people to use their themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. The developer’s name and contact details can be found by looking at style.css. … Read more

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