In order to add widgets to any page you need to have a dynamic sidebar configured. Whether or not you have a dynamic sidebar that is visible from your home page depends on the theme. If you don’t, you can initialize a new sidebar by using the register_sidebar() function in your functions.php file (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar) And … Read more
I can’t find a plugin that does this, but here’s an alternative: You can use code like this to get the post’s metadata (custom field) values in the widget sidebar.php: <?php global $post; ?> <?php $sidebar = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘sidebarval’, $single = true); ?> <?php if($sidebar != ”) { ?> <?php $myrows = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT id, … Read more
If you save those urls in options table, then using get_option you can use it any where…
It depends on the plugin, but you could edit your post template and either use a template tag (if one exists), a shortcode (if one exists), or call the widget directly. Either way, you’ll have to edit the template (unless you want to register a new sidebar).
Check the following answer, adapt the code and it will do what you want. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/3005/12615 Use Firebug for Firefox, or Chrome/Safari inspector to discover the widget ID. Note the use of CSS3 attribute selector, that allows targeting an element using a partial ID or Class. For example, this will hide the Calendar widget: div.widget[id*=_calendar-] { … Read more
If you hard-coded your custom query directly in the page template, then you’re going to need to duplicate that custom query in a custom Widget. On the other hand, if you’ve abstracted the custom query (either into a template-part file, or better yet, a custom function), then you can simply include the template-part file or … Read more
You can create your own actions using do_action, like this: <?php do_action(‘before_sidebar’); // you can name it whatever you want ?> <?php if ( is_active_sidebar(‘main-sidebar’) ) : ?> <ul> <?php dynamic_sidebar(‘main-sidebar’); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> <?php do_action(‘after_sidebar’); ?> and use add_action() normally: add_action(‘before_sidebar’, ‘before_sidebar_function’); add_action(‘after_sidebar’, ‘after_sidebar_function’); UPDATE: depending on the codex you can use … Read more
It’s part of the Webzine theme – if you take a look at the source, near the bottom, there’s a rather hefty chunk of JS that queries Twitter & renders the tweets. Now whether that code is sat there waiting for you in footer.php, or called in from somewhere else, I don’t know – if … Read more
Use get_the_ID() instead of the_ID(). the_ID() will echo’ed the ID of posting: <option value=”<? the_ID(); ?>” <?php selected(get_the_ID(), $instance[‘post_to_display’]); ?>><?php the_title(); ?></option>
By default, checked echoes. If you set the (currently empty) third parameter to false, it should work as expected. Change the line to: $$sku = isset( $instance[$sku] ) ? checked( (bool) $instance[$sku], true, false ) : false; More info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/checked