You can use @kudratullah’s suggestion to hook into the widgets page. The downside is that this allows insertion of a piece of html only in one specific place. If that location is ok, use that solution. Otherwise, there are two other possibilities. The first is to use jquery. Examine the source to identify the html … Read more
Your widgets will get an ID based on the class name you specify. You can then write a CSS selector based on those values. Say that you prefix your widget classes with ‘foo_’, then you can select them with: div[id*=”foo_”] { background-color: red; } To add that to the admin pages add something like this … Read more
Here is a tutorial on submitting forms through dashboard widgets : http://www.wpexplorer.com/configurable-dashboard-widgets/ In the tutorial the author uses a single function for both displaying and updating the widget. What if you then use this approach and implement functionality similar to a save routine for custom meta boxes and custom fields to link the new meta … Read more
To answer your specific question: no, there are no hooks that would allow you to “reuse”. However, there is nothing keeping you from calling your browseCustomColumns() function in your function that renders the dashboard widget. However, in order to do that, you’d have to make a minor change your compile_dashboard_widget() function: public function compile_dashboard_widget () … Read more
A standard WordPress install doesn’t keep track of visits to pages/posts. So without a plugin there’s no way to know which posts/pages are visited most often. As to finding random posts that’s as simple as: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => array( ‘post’, ‘page’, ‘my-custom-post-type’ ) ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ); $query = new WP_Query ($args);
You will find the source of Custom Menu widget in /wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-nav-menu-widget.php.
It is just a PHP coding practice difference and you can combine both. The use of ?: is called ternary operator and it is like a if/else shorthand. This line: $title = isset( $instance[‘title’] ) ? $instance[‘title’] : ”; It is like: if( isset( $instance[‘title’] ) ) { $title = isset( $instance[‘title’] ); } else … Read more
first add this code to functions.php register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => __(‘Top Footer’, ‘educate’), ‘id’ => ‘top-footer’, ‘description’ => __(‘Top Full width footer.’, ‘educate’), ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”footer-widget %2$s” id=”%1$s” >’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h3 class=”footer-widget-title”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h3>’, )); after add this code where you want to show widget <?php if (is_active_sidebar(‘top-footer’)) { if … Read more
There is a function called wp_get_referrer that you can use to see from which page a user is reaching the home page. Usage: if (is_home() && (wp_get_referrer() == ‘url/subscription/page’)) { … show page without widget } else { … show page with widget } Now, there is no built in way to use this condition … Read more
This is unsolvable in general case, since widgets can be either generated by sidebar calls in arbitrary locations of templates or (rarely) even rendered individually without sidebar. So for general case at best you can hook into the processes and run some logic at the end of page load. If you are working on specific … Read more