custom widget not saved to sidebar

Alright, so I found it after some sleepless hours: The call to $this->get_field_id($key) in the Widget constructor was a mistake. It has to happen during the function form() (probably due to some usage of global variables* ) Most of the pain came from the fact, that it did not save the widget in the sidebar. … Read more

Searching for a one page overview widget

You can add a menu item whose link goes to a specific section on the same page or a section on a different page. This works with any WordPress menu, which you can create and edit by clicking Appearance > Menus in the WordPress admin panel. This technique involves two steps: adding a unique ID … Read more

how to make video autoplay in widget

You can do that by writing JavaScript. Like, in your theme footer (footer.php) if you place code like below (before the ending </body> tag): <script> var vid = document.querySelector(‘video.wp-video-shortcode’); vid.autoplay = true; vid.load(); </script> It will autoplay all the videos of all the video widgets on the DOM (or in fact all the videos with … Read more

Widgets are not displaying in my theme

Change Id of register sidebar. i have tested and after changing id it is working fine. let me know if this solve you issue. function universalSearch() { register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => ‘Universal Search’, ‘id’ => ‘universal-search-field’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”chw-widget”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”chw-title”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’, ) ); register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ … Read more

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