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.
I just found the answer and instead of putting this in the Title: <!–:en–>My English Title<!–:–><!–:fr–>My French Title<!–:–> We need to put this code: [:en]My English Title[:fr]My French Title and qTranslate does the rest 🙂
You can use the widget_display_callback (fired, predictably, just prior to displaying a widget 🙂 ). add_filter(‘widget_display_callback’,’wptuts54095_widget_custom_title’,10,3); function wptuts54095_widget_custom_title($instance, $widget, $args){ if ( is_single() ){ //On a single post. $title = get_the_title(); $instance[‘title’] = $instance[‘title’].’ ‘.$title; } return $instance; } The $widget argument is an object of your widget class, and so $widget->id_base will contain the … Read more
I invoke the link dialogue within the metabox class I use for development. Its a tad hacky but can be done, until something more robust is developed. You can invoke the link box by first enqueing the required js, and then interacting with the wp-link js files methods. Make sure you have enqueued wp-link 1 … Read more
Aha, so the $before_widget variable is a string representing div element: <div class=”widget my” id=”my-widget-1″> . So I checked the $before_widget for the “class” sub-string and added my $widget_width value to it. The code is from my custom widget file: function widget( $args, $instance ) { extract( $args ); … //other code $widget_width = !empty($instance[‘widget_width’]) … Read more