UPDATE: Based upon the update of the question I think I need to explicitly state that what is asked in the question can be done with the answer below, just used custom fields in the “Car” custom post type for each of the items you want displayed on all pages for a given car. If … Read more
In addition to Toscho’s answer here’s what you need for a robust solution: // if no title then add widget content wrapper to before widget add_filter( ‘dynamic_sidebar_params’, ‘check_sidebar_params’ ); function check_sidebar_params( $params ) { global $wp_registered_widgets; $settings_getter = $wp_registered_widgets[ $params[0][‘widget_id’] ][‘callback’][0]; $settings = $settings_getter->get_settings(); $settings = $settings[ $params[1][‘number’] ]; if ( $params[0][ ‘after_widget’ ] == … Read more
Aha, so the $before_widget variable is a string representing div element: <div class=”widget my” id=”my-widget-1″> . So I checked the $before_widget for the “class” sub-string and added my $widget_width value to it. The code is from my custom widget file: function widget( $args, $instance ) { extract( $args ); … //other code $widget_width = !empty($instance[‘widget_width’]) … Read more
If you upgrade your WordPress to 3.3.1, which you absolutely should, each widget area in the admin now has an ID you can use to target via CSS, which really should be enough. See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18334 for an example.
You have to collect multiple fields under the same name like this … name=”collect[1]” name=”collect[2]” … and adjust your widget logic to this. Here is a very simple demo widget: <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /* Plugin Name: Store Options as array */ add_action( ‘widgets_init’, array ( ‘T5_Array_Options_Widget’, ‘register’ ) ); class T5_Array_Options_Widget extends … Read more
If you look at implementation of WP_Nav_Menu_Widget class you will see the following code: function widget($args, $instance) { // Get menu $nav_menu = ! empty( $instance[‘nav_menu’] ) ? wp_get_nav_menu_object( $instance[‘nav_menu’] ) : false; if ( !$nav_menu ) return; $instance[‘title’] = apply_filters( ‘widget_title’, empty( $instance[‘title’] ) ? ” : $instance[‘title’], $instance, $this->id_base ); echo $args[‘before_widget’]; if … Read more
Interesting Question! I’ve never seen repeatable fields used in Widgets. Giving a full Answer would require too much work/time, so I’ll give you links to the resources I know, and hopefully you’ll make this work and share the solution with us 😉 All this examples deal with Meta Boxes, you’ll need to copy the jQuery … Read more
I know this post is pretty old, but because I came across the same issue and this post came up higher than one with a solution, I figured I’d add this, which worked for me. Source: http://coffeecupweb.com/how-to-exclude-or-hide-categories-from-category-widget-in-wordpress-sidebar/ //Hide categories from WordPress category widget function exclude_widget_categories($args){ $exclude = “1,4,8,57,80”; $args[“exclude”] = $exclude; return $args; } add_filter(“widget_categories_args”,”exclude_widget_categories”);
Widget options are stored in the options table under ‘sidebars_widgets’ as a serialized array. See this post for a longer explanation. Changing the field per PHPMyAdmin is not recommended, use PHP, get_option() and update_option() instead, WordPress will take care for correct serialization then.
WordPress as a nice function is_active_widget that you can use in your __construct and test if the widget is present in the current page and add your scripts/styles based on that ex: function __construct() { parent::__construct(__CLASS__, ‘BasicWidget’, array( ‘classname’ => __CLASS__, ‘description’ => “This is a basic widget template that outputs text to the sidebar” … Read more