I am not sure what you mean by “the actual name”. If you need the class name, look in the source of the theme for extends WP_Widget. Other widget information is stored in the $wpdb->options table under keys starting with widget_. Once you find that you can use get_option( ‘widget_name’ ); to get information about … Read more
I’m still eager to hear of an action that applies to this use case, but here’s a more brute-force approach, if nothing else turns up: // within My_Widget class definition private static $metaboxes_added = false; // to ensure we don’t add them more than once // inside My_Widget class constructor add_action( ‘init’, array( $this, ‘add_metaboxes’ … Read more
Your widget is part of a plugin (per the first sentence of the question), so what you are really talking about is making a plugin administration page, which you would do with add_menu_page, add_submenu_page, or one of the more specialize menu page functions. That is the nutshell version of the answer. There are a lot … Read more
You could add this to your CSS: div.textwidget { max-width: 250px; } You would probably want to make sure that’s above your media query rules so that it doesn’t affect the formatting of your page on smaller screens. I used Chrome’s developer console to find out how wide the text inputs are and to find … Read more
Your widget method does not echo anything. If you want content to show up the widget needs to echo content. function widget( $args, $instance ) { extract( $args ); /* Our variables from the widget settings. */ if(isset($instance)) { if( isset( $instance[ ‘title’ ] ) ) { $title = apply_filters( ‘widget_title’, $instance[ ‘title’ ] ); … Read more
Your Class Name: I’d prefix the class name to make collisions less likely– something like Your_Initials_Today_Video, or namespace it, but be aware that PHP namespacing requires a higher versions of PHP than WordPress requires. That could cause issues. Your Constructor: You can use __construct instead of Today_video for your constructor. WordPress no longer supports PHP … Read more
Wow, first question I finally found the answer to by myself 🙂 I found it here at the WordPress forum. This post offers a correct code-snippet to add an index number to each widget plus to pass a widget-first/widget-last-class to the first/last one. Works like a charme!
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