Based off the example @mrwweb provided above and some additional code, here is an answer that works. This answer forces a widget to save when a widget is added to a sidebar. It finds all the “Save” buttons and triggers their click event thus saving the widget. The count variable is used to stop an … Read more
I changed the name of the back-end widget reference to “carousel_edit_url_for_newspro/backendwnisoform.php” in order to isolate the problem down to its essentials. The code below works, praise G-d. I should then be able to use this sort of code in the main stream of the program development to get the drop-down menus to work fine, G-d … Read more
They’re in the rather obviously named /wp-includes/default-widgets.php file.
WordPress 5.8 added the ability to add Blocks to sidebars. Blocks do not use the title and markup defined for a sidebar. They just use the normal HTML they would use in the editor. “Legacy” widgets can still be added, and should still have the option to enter a title and use the markup defined … Read more
Here’s a complete example of the projects widget based on your code. This widget will allow users to specify the number of project posts to display and will also allow a word limit to be enforced for the content. Note that I went with using a word limit for the content instead of a character … Read more
Shortcodes are not supported in the Text Widget by default. Add the following to your functions.php: // Enable shortcodes in WP Text Widget add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘shortcode_unautop’); add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’, 11); Instead of wrapping the video URL in the shortcode, use the following in the Text Widget: For more info on the shortcode, see the Codex.
First, there is no such thing as a widget’s data. This is because a widget may be included in several places on a site. So the data belongs not to the widget, but to the instance of that widget. For this reasons, every widget gets an ID. If you want to know what the ID … Read more
Where are the widgets settings stored? The widget settings are stored in the wp_options table. You can retrieve it with print_r( get_option( ‘widget_x’ ) ); where x is the $id_base input parameter of the WP_Widget class constructor. If $id_base is empty, then it uses the widget class name in lower case letters, without the prefixes: … Read more
you can either use the !important property or ensure that your style definition has precedence by making it more specific. http://www.google.com/search?q=css+specificity
I think it’s pretty self-explanatory, see the SE flair page. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/flair Simply copy the provided HTML and paste it into the appropriate template file. I didn’t down vote, but i can understand why, this is really basic copy and paste HTML..