you can test category identifier and parent in a widget with that : class WidgetExample extends \WP_Widget { public const IDENTIFIANT = “example1”; public const CATEGORY_ID = 25; public function __construct() { parent::__construct( self::IDENTIFIANT , “Example” ); } public function widget($args, $instance) { if (!is_category()) { return; } $currentCategory = get_queried_object(); if ( (self::CATEGORY_ID !== … Read more
As you can see from the hook order, widget_init is a hook that is quite early in the page execution order. So, by the time save_post is fired widget_init has already passed. If you add an action to a hook that has already passed, nothing will happen.
A. This is a good idea in general? I’m quite new to transients. No, not really. If your data is for display and search then it’s not really ‘transient’, is it? You should store the data properly in a more permanent place and periodically sync it. If the data from this API makes sense as … Read more
register_widget() doesn’t make any changes to the database. All it does is make a particular widget available to be used. It shouldn’t be used on the dynamic_sidebar hook. It’s supposed to be used on the widgets_init hook. If you want the contents of a widget to change depending on the current page, then that logic … Read more
Only Blocks appear in the block editor. A recent version of WordPress added the ability to add Blocks to widget areas, but not the ability to add Widgets to posts. You have registered a Widget, which can only be added to widget areas. To create a widget that can be added anywhere that Blocks can … Read more
TLDR: If you wanted to update to v5.8 you don’t need to do anything to make widgets work, they won’t break if you update. There is no conversion step, no updating of code to make it work. migration is not necessary. I’m trying to tranform legacy widgets to block, I was reading the docs, but … Read more
How do I remove/reset all current widgets from the database?
I Found the answer for my question , And I’m sharing it here in case anyone interested. the problem was that click event won’t work on dynamically generated html elements and the alternative that worked is using on $(‘body’).on(‘click’,’#elementID’,Callback)
There are 2 things you can do here. If you do not want to touch the source code, install any meta widget plugin editor (example – https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-meta-widget/) and make required changes. If you can access your code, then look for default-widget.php file, find the lines where you have the unnecessary links, delete them and save … Read more
I have checked code of codeshare.io/2jJLDK and found the issue. Please follow below instructions for fix this issue. In the form function, you have used input type as “url” for Link and as per rule of input type “url”, it can’t take “#” so you must use actual url with http/https like https://www.google.com/ for saving/updating … Read more