Reposition the widget sidebar in Appearance->Widgets

There will be a code inside your theme’s functions.php file which registers the sidebars for you. You need to find it and rearrange the sidebars the way you want. Open the functions.php file and search for register_sidebar. The sidebars are registered as an array inside this function.

Get a list of all Widgets registered in WordPress admin widgets-area

Widgets are stored in a public variable $widgets in the class WP_Widget_Factory. You can access this class per global variable $wp_widget_factory. To get all registered widgets, list the keys: add_action( ‘wp_footer’, function() { if ( empty ( $GLOBALS[‘wp_widget_factory’] ) ) return; $widgets = array_keys( $GLOBALS[‘wp_widget_factory’]->widgets ); print ‘<pre>$widgets=” . esc_html( var_export( $widgets, TRUE ) ) … Read more

How to add styling and script to a custom widget plugin

You can use wp_enqueue_script and wp_enqueue_style just after the following code add_action(‘widgets_init’, function(){ register_widget(‘calendar_widget’); }); You can add js/css like this function mg_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style( ‘style-name’, ‘/path/to/css’ ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘script-name’, ‘/path/to/js’, array(), ‘1.0.0’, true ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘mg_scripts’ ); You can also call wp_enqueue_script and wp_enqueue_style directly inside widget function like this <?php /* … Read more

I accidentally added a widget area called sidebar 1

There should be a line like this in your functions.php of the theme: “register_sidebar”… <?php // … some code before // register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => __(‘unwanted widget’, ‘your-textdomain’), ‘description’ => __(‘Your new widget desciption’, ‘your-textdomain’), ‘id’ => ‘your-new-widget-name’ )); // …some code after ?> Search for that line and change it. Basically, simply rename your unwanted … Read more

How to display widget in front end?

In order to display widget in the front end, on any page template, just add this line. the_widget(‘widget class name’) for more details, read wordpress codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget