Widgets are stored in a public variable $widgets in the class WP_Widget_Factory. You can access this class per global variable $wp_widget_factory. To get all registered widgets, list the keys: add_action( ‘wp_footer’, function() { if ( empty ( $GLOBALS[‘wp_widget_factory’] ) ) return; $widgets = array_keys( $GLOBALS[‘wp_widget_factory’]->widgets ); print ‘<pre>$widgets=” . esc_html( var_export( $widgets, TRUE ) ) … Read more
You should make the check inside the widget class, unless you don’t have a choice. The example in the codex is pretty much what you’re looking for: class cbs_map_widget extends WP_Widget{ function cbs_map_widget(){ $this->WP_Widget(‘cbsmaps’, __(‘Widget Name’), array(‘classname’ => ‘cbsmaps’, ‘description’ => __(‘whatever’))); … add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, array(&$this, ‘js’)); } function js(){ if ( is_active_widget(false, false, $this->id_base, true) … Read more
Seems like there is no filter for this (yet), but you can unregister the default activity widget and register (within your functions, or even better within your plugin as recommended by Dave Warfel) a similar activity widget with your custom settings: // unregister the default activity widget add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘remove_dashboard_widgets’ ); function remove_dashboard_widgets() { global $wp_meta_boxes; … Read more
I’m plucking this code out of my Total Widget Control plugin, so it might throw an error or two. I dunno, just let me know if it does. This is basically the widget code that I use for everything that I build. if (!function_exists(“register_multiwidget”)): /** * Register a widget * * @param $widget */ function … Read more
The WordPress Widgets API is how various widgets are created and sidebars registered. When creating a new widget there are variables that can be added to any widget. Those get their value from the register_sidebars arguments. args (string/array) (optional) Builds Sidebar based off of ‘name’ and ‘id’ values. Default: None name – Sidebar name. id … Read more
wp_get_sidebars_widgets(); will return a list of all sidebars & the widgets in each of them. This can allow you to check for sidebars with no widgets
Approach So I’ve looked into this and my approach is this: When launching the customizer go through all sidebars and disable the widget as soon as you find any usage of it Whenever a sidebar is changed do that again. Disclaimer This has the following limitations: This is the first time I’ve dabbled in playing … Read more
I think WordPress widgets create li tags on default. If you want the bullet points removed you could fix that with a css approach. .widget li { list-style: none; }
After some research and based on the answer from Eugene Manuilov I made a function that adds custom classes to widgets in a specific sidebar (‘sidebar-bottom’ in my case) based on the number of widgets set in that sidebar. This will suit perfectly in horizontal sidebars and themes based on twitter bootstrap that need spanX … Read more
The default Recent Posts Widget code is in includes/default-widgets.php but you should not be hacking Core code. Copy that function to your theme’s functions.php, rename it, and create your own customized widget.