The solution was simple and made me feel tremendously stupid. 90% of the issues I could find remotely similar to my issue were all issues relating to the casing. Throughout this whole process I overlooked the “_HOMEPAGE” and “_RIGHT_SIDEBAR” in my IDs. Those should be lowercase. id – Sidebar id – Must be all in … Read more
Found the issue.. somehow my serialized string was corrupt, when trying to edit the data in the WP Backend it threw an error and the data was reset. Unserialize now works fine and everything is OK. I don’t know if this could help anybody who might be in a similar situation therefore I am not … Read more
For the type of your $catId, you must use the cat parameter. You can check here the differents parameters allowed. cat (int) – use category id. category_name (string) – use category slug. category__and (array) – use category id. category__in (array) – use category id. category__not_in (array) – use category id.
Your question is a little short on detail, but let’s suppose you have retrieved the posts using wp_query and are looping through it like this: $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) { $the_query->the_post(); STUFF } wp_reset_postdata(); } In the position of STUFF you want to distinguish … Read more
To properly include style you need to do it with wp_enqueue_scripts action. With a shortcode, you need to include the file differently as the header has already been send. One way, Can be to include file in the shortcode. Other way, in the wp_enqueue_scripts callback function can be to scan the_content, detect shortcode and include … Read more
It looks like server response time and stylesheet loading are causing the greatest delay: You can measure the network performance of your site yourself using the Network panel in Chrome: Right click > Inspect > Network (refresh the page to load details)
The real question is why do you want to cache anything at all. If the widget is a common “recent posts” then all the practical object caching you are doing is mostly a duplication of the caching done in `WP_query’ when you query for the posts. Or in other words, the simplest solution is to … Read more
If the default category widget’s interface doesn’t offer what you want, there are roughly two courses of action: find another widget or adapt the existing one. The first would be outside the scope of this site, the second one is a bit too broad, but here’s what you would do for big adaptations: Build the … Read more
Remove “array” from your arguments declaration: public function widget(array $args, $instance) should be public function widget($args, $instance)
is_widget_active is what you want e.g. function sidedish_slide_script() { wp_register_script(‘add-sd-js’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/form-slider/jquery-1.8.2.min.js’, array(‘jquery’),’null’, true ); wp_register_script(‘add-sd-custom’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/form-slider/formslider.js’, array(‘jquery’),’null’, true ); wp_register_style(‘add-sd-css’,get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/form-slider/styles.css’, ”,”,’screen’ ); if ( is_active_widget( false, ‘widget_id’, $this->id_base, true ) ) { wp_enqueue_script (‘add-sd-js’); wp_enqueue_script (‘add-sd-custom’); wp_enqueue_style (‘add-sd-css’); } } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’,’sidedish_slide_script’); https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_widget