Making the title click-able WordPress won’t let you pass HTML code in the title of the widget, but it does have the handy parameters $before_title and $after_title that you can use to manipulate things. In your widget, just add the first part of the link (<a href=”…”>) to the end of $before_title and the last … Read more
You can create a one-time-use widget with the following example found here: wp_register_sidebar_widget The following code will create a widget called “Your Widget” which will become available in the WordPress Administrative Panels. The widget can then be dragged to an available sidebar for display. Note that this widget can only be used once in exactly … Read more
The parameters are given (as an array) as the first argument provided to the widget method. The second argument, $instance, holds the options for that particular instance of the widget. My usual set up is: function widget($args, $instance){ //Extract the widget-sidebar parameters from array extract($args, EXTR_SKIP); echo $before_widget; echo $before_title; //Display title as stored in … Read more
Solution pulled from OP. Ok fixed. In widget-config.php there is no check if the form has been submitted, so every time you load configuration it updates with empty values or keeps default ones. Add this check if (!empty($_POST)) before updating options values and display stored value of number-input: <input type=”text” name=”number” value=”<?php echo self::get_dashboard_widget_option(self::wid, ‘example_number’); … Read more
Sure, you can do this. It sounds like it would make more sense to add a protected forum to your installation though… but here’s how you would do it: // Create the function to output the contents of our Dashboard Widget function iframe_dashboard_widget_function() { // Display whatever it is you want to show echo ‘<iframe … Read more
As the comment says, you should validate the values of the new instance. What happens if one of these values is invalid? You can either set a predefined default value or use the value from the old instance, because that must be valid. So a very simple update code could look like this: function update( … Read more
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_widget add something like this to functions.php: if (!function_exists(‘my_unregister_default_wp_widgets’)) { function my_unregister_default_wp_widgets() { unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Calendar’); unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Recent_Posts’); } add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘my_unregister_default_wp_widgets’, 1); } Also… you can look at the http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API examples to see how you can extend the WP_Widget class to create custom widgets that you want.
Just register another widget area. Don’t take the name sidebar literally, you can use the fields anywhere on your page. In your theme’s functions.php: add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘register_multiple_widget_areas’ ); function register_multiple_widget_areas() { register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => ‘Sidebar’, ‘id’ => ‘sidebar’, ‘description’ => ‘describe the function of the box.’ ) ); register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => ‘Header’, ‘id’ … Read more
How about native Thickbox with the native jQuery tabs for example: the widget it self is simple and only has a link but one you click on it the thickbox pops up and shows all of the options grouped by tabs: let me know what you think I’ll fetch the code for you.
widget() method is called when widget is rendered, so the style you’re enqueuing are printed in the footer (header is already printed at that time). Even if majority of browser can render styles linked from page body, that’s invalid HTML because, according to HTML standards, unlike scrypts, styles must be placed in page <head>. (Try … Read more