I’m still eager to hear of an action that applies to this use case, but here’s a more brute-force approach, if nothing else turns up: // within My_Widget class definition private static $metaboxes_added = false; // to ensure we don’t add them more than once // inside My_Widget class constructor add_action( ‘init’, array( $this, ‘add_metaboxes’ … Read more
Your widget is part of a plugin (per the first sentence of the question), so what you are really talking about is making a plugin administration page, which you would do with add_menu_page, add_submenu_page, or one of the more specialize menu page functions. That is the nutshell version of the answer. There are a lot … Read more
Add the data to your pages as Custom Fields, then use one of the meta functions in your sidebar to display this data. Note that the custom fields UI may be hidden from view on pages. If this is the case, click the Screen Options tab in the upper right corner and tick the box … Read more
You could add this to your CSS: div.textwidget { max-width: 250px; } You would probably want to make sure that’s above your media query rules so that it doesn’t affect the formatting of your page on smaller screens. I used Chrome’s developer console to find out how wide the text inputs are and to find … Read more
Your widget method does not echo anything. If you want content to show up the widget needs to echo content. function widget( $args, $instance ) { extract( $args ); /* Our variables from the widget settings. */ if(isset($instance)) { if( isset( $instance[ ‘title’ ] ) ) { $title = apply_filters( ‘widget_title’, $instance[ ‘title’ ] ); … Read more
Your Class Name: I’d prefix the class name to make collisions less likely– something like Your_Initials_Today_Video, or namespace it, but be aware that PHP namespacing requires a higher versions of PHP than WordPress requires. That could cause issues. Your Constructor: You can use __construct instead of Today_video for your constructor. WordPress no longer supports PHP … Read more
WordPress widgets manager option for emulating theme layout
Wow, first question I finally found the answer to by myself 🙂 I found it here at the WordPress forum. This post offers a correct code-snippet to add an index number to each widget plus to pass a widget-first/widget-last-class to the first/last one. Works like a charme!
Conditionally enable autoplay when using oEmbed in a custom widget
Sounds like you don’t need the querying power taxonomies will offer, but it would make sense to use if you think you’ll frequently have the same authors publishing; reduces redundant data (i.e. lots of the same entries in post meta) and improves the UX for administrators. Same applies for websites; if there’ll be many with … Read more