I use Widget Logic at my blog. It is not most convenient solution around, but definitely one of the most flexible. Widgets can be displayed/hidden based on arbitrary PHP condition. Works great with conditional tags and when that is not enough you just write your own conditions and use them.
there no “id_base” key in $control_ops; from what I know it only accepts width/height. move it the id_base is the first argument you have there in WP_Widget()
I don’t know about Bing’s spider but you can create your own widget and instead of using the select tag’s onchange event you can use JQuery to bind the change event to do the same: $(“select”).change(function () { window.location.replace(this.val()); });
In the method “widget” look for the line that sets the category then add either: $cat = empty($instance[‘cat’]) ? ‘N/A’ : $instance[‘cat’]; (where you replace N/A with something you like) or… better… add a filter instead like this: $cat = apply_filters( ‘widget_my_cat’, empty($instance[‘cat’]) ? ‘N/A’ : $instance[‘cat’], $instance, $this->id_base); And then hook into ‘widget_my_cat’ to … Read more
It should be as simple as dragging another text widget from the active widgets into the sidebar and copying the desired text in again. Unless you are having complications?
Build a custom sql query that selects the latest testimonials from the table that the plugin creates. Use $wpdb->get_results($sql_query) to get the results as an array, and then loop over it in your markup.
There are various approaches (including this one), but you could consider, since you’re talking about a stylesheet and not a script, simply enqueueing it from the Plugin, regardless of whether the Widget is active. (Which is worse: the few bytes of Widget-specific CSS, or the server overhead to determine if the Widget is active?) Just … Read more
Registering sidebar is just a function call, there is no reason it can’t be run on top of some logic. Here is code I wrote (and use) in my current theme: $pages = get_pages(); foreach ( $pages as $page ) { register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => “Page: {$page->post_title}”, ‘id’ => “sidebar-page-{$page->post_name}”, ‘description’ => “Widgetized area after … Read more
I dont see anywhere on the code that it adds either full text or excerpt. So I decided to test the widget and that’s exactly what I got. There is no post content being output. So my suggestion is to just add <?php the_excerpt(); ?> Wherever you want it to output… eg just after the … Read more
You would call: add_meta_box( $widget_id, $widget_name, $callback, $screen->id, $location, $priority ); Where the screen ID is obtained via: $screen = get_current_screen(); Then display each location e.g. : do_meta_boxes( $screen->id, ‘column3′, ” ); Here’s the dashboard function that displays the dashboard: function wp_dashboard() { global $screen_layout_columns; $screen = get_current_screen(); $hide2 = $hide3 = $hide4 = ”; … Read more