To get a custom field value outside of the loop you need to call global $wp_query to get your post id. global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; $image = get_post_meta($postid, ‘Thumbnail’, true);
When you save the widget, you can save a field (which won’t be setable in the admin interface) which stores the current time and then use that when you go to do the widget output.
In order to add widgets to any page you need to have a dynamic sidebar configured. Whether or not you have a dynamic sidebar that is visible from your home page depends on the theme. If you don’t, you can initialize a new sidebar by using the register_sidebar() function in your functions.php file (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar) And … Read more
Such a widget does not exist. You say you don’t want to use parents, but that is my advise. Then just make a menu for it. If you know how you could make it yourself. A plus of this would be that you get the ‘category name’ of the parent in your permalink. An other … Read more
I can’t find a plugin that does this, but here’s an alternative: You can use code like this to get the post’s metadata (custom field) values in the widget sidebar.php: <?php global $post; ?> <?php $sidebar = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sidebarval’, $single = true); ?> <?php if($sidebar != ”) { ?> <?php $myrows = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT id, … Read more
If you save those urls in options table, then using get_option you can use it any where…
It depends on the plugin, but you could edit your post template and either use a template tag (if one exists), a shortcode (if one exists), or call the widget directly. Either way, you’ll have to edit the template (unless you want to register a new sidebar).
Check the following answer, adapt the code and it will do what you want. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/3005/12615 Use Firebug for Firefox, or Chrome/Safari inspector to discover the widget ID. Note the use of CSS3 attribute selector, that allows targeting an element using a partial ID or Class. For example, this will hide the Calendar widget: div.widget[id*=_calendar-] { … Read more
You’ll want to hook into wpmu_new_blog. You can see the args you can pass it here (no codex right now…). That last $meta arg can take a lot of different settings. You also might look into the WPMU New Blog Defaults. It doesn’t seem to do everything you want, but it might at least contain … Read more
If you hard-coded your custom query directly in the page template, then you’re going to need to duplicate that custom query in a custom Widget. On the other hand, if you’ve abstracted the custom query (either into a template-part file, or better yet, a custom function), then you can simply include the template-part file or … Read more