Turns out the section would be addressed with ‘section’ => ‘sidebar-widgets-top-widget-area’ … so you need the sidebar-widgets- in front of the widget area name. However, since it is the widgets panel, everything except the widget areas active on the page your are at are set to display: none; and need to be set to: display: … Read more
I think you should check your parent theme functions.php for code which should load widgets and copy & paste such code to child theme functions.php file. It should work.
This will wrap a span around the first word and also the remaining words in the title. Adjust the class names as necessary: add_filter(‘widget_title’, ‘yourprefix_custom_title’); function yourprefix_custom_title( $old_title ) { $title = explode( ” “, $old_title, 2 ); if ( isset( $title[0] ) && isset( $title[1] ) ) { $new_title = “<span class=”first”>$title[0]</span> <span class=”second”>$title[1]</span>”; … Read more
Widgets in core presently do not make this easy. Please read Live Widget Previews: Widget Management in the Customizer in WordPress 3.9, and in particular the section “No more Update button (usually)”: Widget forms on the admin page have a familiar Save button. In previous versions of Widget Customizer, we adapted the Save button to … Read more
Your actual issue is that you are using $(‘.custom_media_url’).val(attachment.url); without selecting the exact field you need. This selects every .custom_media_url field on the page, e.g. each field within each widget. Since you are using jQuery, you can replace this line: $(‘.custom_media_url’).val(attachment.url); with $( e.target ).siblings( ‘.custom_media_url’ ).val( attachment.url ) However, using wp.media.editor is not the … Read more
To register a sidebar widget, head over to Appearance > Editor and select the function.php from the right side. Then copy and paste this code at the end of your function.php file. function custom_register_widgets() { register_sidebar( array ( ‘name’ => __( ‘Sidebar widget’), ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-custom’, ‘description’ => __( ‘Widgets dragged here will appear in … Read more
The WP_Widget class can be a bit confusing as an object instance of it (a child class must be used) doesn’t represent a specific instance of a widget. It is more of an object to handle all instances of this widget class. $instance is a variable repeatedly used within the WP_Widget class (and hence also … Read more
The WP_Widget class seems to run many times on a page load
Try doing a print_r() between setting the post variables and the validation to see what it thinks is in them. echo ‘<pre>’; print_r( $email ); print_r( $name ); echo ‘</pre>’;
Try this: class My_Widget extends WP_Widget { /** * Sets up the widgets name etc */ public function __construct() { $widget_ops = array( ‘classname’ => ‘my_widget’, ‘description’ => ‘My Widget is awesome’, ); parent::__construct(‘my_widget’, ‘My Widget’, $widget_ops); } /** * Outputs the content of the widget * * @param array $args * @param array $instance … Read more