Countdown Widget
Yes, there’s a great widget called the jQuery T-Minus Countdown Widget Enjoy!
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Truncate Widget Title
don’t use echo in filter functions – use return: function widget_new_title($title) { return word_limiter($title,20); } add_filter(‘widget_title’,’widget_new_title’);
Change number of widget columns in dashboard?
Under “Screen Options”, you can change the number of columns. Does that fix your problem?
Vimeo Feed gived dead link with RSS widget?
The link in the title comes from the RSS feed: it contains a <link> element describing the URL of the entire channel. I think Vimeo (recently?) changed their URL structure so http://vimeo.com/user3235740/videos/uploaded no longer points to the recently uploaded videos, but http://vimeo.com/user3235740/videos/sort:newest does. It looks like Vimeo should update their feeds to include the correct … Read more
WordPress text filed input only inter value?
<?php print (int) $instance[‘num_post’]; ?> or possibly: <?php print absint( $instance[‘num_post’] ); ?> Use the second one to avoid negative values.
WordPress widget value not save?
I also got this problem before. I try to use the (bool) but the problem still occured. (bool) $instance[‘post_date’] will always return true unless $instance[‘post_date’] is an empty array, NULL or empty string you can check this from http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php <?php var_dump((bool) “”); // bool(false) var_dump((bool) 1); // bool(true) var_dump((bool) -2); // bool(true) var_dump((bool) “foo”); // … Read more
How can I detemine the parameters needed by the_widget()?
If you don’t need to change any of the settings for the widget, you may be able to use the Duplicate Widget widget.
changing the style of sidebar
if you are using (a child of) twenty ten, then the theme will use body_class() and have a unique css class for each page; use that to style the color of the sidebar widgets; example: .page-id-23 #primary.widget-area { color: #123edf; }
SELECT field options disappear when saving widget
Found it. There was an extra closing slash on the opening select field.
Limit archive widget results
I would use the PHP Code Widget from Otto and then simply put this in the widget to limit the archives to 7 months: <ul><?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&limit=7’); ?></ul> (Give the widget a title like Archives if you want, and remove the default WordPress Archive widget.) Function Reference/wp get archives