If i understand correctly you are trying to display a list of child pages of a page in a widget, if so then first check if you are on a page using the conditional tag is_page() then you can use $wp_query->get_queried_object_id() like t31os has pointed out so your widget display function should look like this: … Read more
Widgets DO appear in the Customizer, but only if you are on the page that they are used on. For example, I have a sidebar for the Archive page. When I’m in the Customizer and on the homepage, that sidebar doesn’t appear. But if I navigate to an archive page while in the Customizer, it … Read more
From this Q&A, I’ve learned about the global variable $wp_meta_boxes. And over there is also the code to remove the default meta boxes. After examining the variable, this is the code I wrote to remove all Dashboard Widgets, including the ones added by plugins: add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘wpse_73561_remove_all_dashboard_meta_boxes’, 9999 ); function wpse_73561_remove_all_dashboard_meta_boxes() { global $wp_meta_boxes; $wp_meta_boxes[‘dashboard’][‘normal’][‘core’] = … Read more
You will need to create more sidebars in your functions.php file and then edit the page templates to call the sidebar you want. Adding sidebars Go in to your functions.php file. You should see some sidebars already being registered. The code will look something like this: //Adds default sidebar if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(); To … Read more
These arguments contain arbitrary HTML and cannot be properly escaped. This is essentially a limitation on how Widgets code was designed and you can see in core Widget classes that no escaping is done on these. Lessons to learn: WP core doesn’t consistently adhere to its own coding standards (and getting there isn’t considered worth … Read more
You’ll have to edit the code for the Recent Posts widget or create your own version based on the default. The code is in the wp-includes/default-widgets.php file around line 513. But since you should never make modifications to core, my recommendation would be to copy the code to create your own My Custom Recent Posts … Read more
Firstly, it is not recommended to use WP_PLUGIN_URL constant, instead use plugins_url() function. Second thing, it will not work when you put your files in the theme. You must put the necessary folder and file in the plugin if have to use this constant or function. Make sure, you have put correct path and you … Read more
Try using the existing WordPress function to modify color palette like: function my_mce4_options( $init ) { $default_colours=” “000000”, “Black”, “993300”, “Burnt orange”, “333300”, “Dark olive”, “003300”, “Dark green”, “003366”, “Dark azure”, “000080”, “Navy Blue”, “333399”, “Indigo”, “333333”, “Very dark gray”, “800000”, “Maroon”, “FF6600”, “Orange”, “808000”, “Olive”, “008000”, “Green”, “008080”, “Teal”, “0000FF”, “Blue”, “666699”, “Grayish blue”, … Read more
Making the title click-able WordPress won’t let you pass HTML code in the title of the widget, but it does have the handy parameters $before_title and $after_title that you can use to manipulate things. In your widget, just add the first part of the link (<a href=”…”>) to the end of $before_title and the last … Read more
Do you search for $args[‘widget_id’]? Just save it in a variable you can access in form() later. Look at wp-includes/default-widgets.php to see how widgets work. Not the best code, but it should give you some hints.