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Is there a way to allow only certain type of widgets in the sidebars?

It is possible to hook to sidebars_widgets and find which widget is in which sidebar. function dump_sidebar($a) { echo ‘<pre>’.var_export($a,true).'</pre>’; } add_action( ‘sidebars_widgets’, ‘dump_sidebar’); By checking that array you could eliminate particular widgets. function limit_sidebar_wpse_101279($sidebars_widgets) { if (!empty($sidebars_widgets[‘sidebar-1’])) { foreach ($sidebars_widgets[‘sidebar-1’] as $k =>$v) { if (‘pages’ == substr($v,0,5)) { unset($sidebars_widgets[‘sidebar-1’][$k]); } } } return … Read more

Separate backend “Widgets” page for each language

I don’t know how qTraslate works, but you can pass filters to Widget Logic , you basically duplicate each widget, one for each language. I have used this technique with WPML to show widgets in separate languages that can sometimes be difficult ( such as when they make direct DB queries).

How to retrive widget title/data

Found a ‘dirty’ way to do it: Here’s my code: $sidebar_id = ‘sidebar1′; $sidebars_widgets = wp_get_sidebars_widgets(); $widget_ids = $sidebars_widgets[$sidebar_id]; foreach( $widget_ids as $id ) { $wdgtvar=”widget_”._get_widget_id_base( $id ); $idvar = _get_widget_id_base( $id ); $instance = get_option( $wdgtvar ); $idbs = str_replace( $idvar.’-‘, ”, $id ); echo ‘<li><a href=”#’.$id.'”>’.$instance[$idbs][‘title’].'</a></li>’; }

Add thumbnail to recent posts widget using filters

Here’s one way to do it through the the_title filter. We can limit the scope to the Recent Posts widget, by initialize it within the widget_posts_args filter and then remove it again after the loop. /** * Recent Posts Widget: Append Thumbs */ add_filter( ‘widget_posts_args’, function( array $args ) { add_filter( ‘the_title’, ‘wpse_prepend_thumbnail’, 10, 2 … Read more

How to add class on Widget Title

Two approaches: Don’t bother Just target .widget.{dynamic-class} h3 instead Use %2$s I don’t know if this will work, but try: ‘before_title’ => ‘<h3 class=”%2$s”>’ But personally, I’d go with the former option. You’ve already got a unique class name; just leverage the element hierarchy to apply styles selectively.

How to process content in a widget? [duplicate]

The filter you’re looking for is widget_text. From the Codex: widget_text applied to the widget text of the WordPress Text widget. May also apply to some third party widgets as well.

Adding classes to dynamic sidebar

You haven’t actually said what the problem is. But I can see one for starters – dynamic_sidebar in your if conditions will echo out the widgets immediately. If you want to check a sidebar has widgets, use is_active_sidebar: is_active_sidebar( ‘sidebar-1’ ); // True/false

Display specific widgets in different area’s around the page

You will want to create a new widget area or dynamic sidebar in your theme’s code. Justin Tadlock has a great tutorial about how to do this, but the basics boil down to this. Add the widget area declaration in your theme’s functions.php file: <?php add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘my_register_sidebars’); function my_register_sidebars() { /* Register the ‘cartwidgets’ sidebar. … Read more

Unfiltered html in widget title not working

If it’s outputting it transformed into htmlspecialchars you could just decode it. In your widget() function: echo $before_title; echo htmlspecialchars_decode( $title ); echo $after_title;

Modifying recent post widget to include icons for post titles

Here’s an example how to prepend a span tag to the post titles, where the span class is added in the custom field wpse_post_icon_class. We could try to restrict it to the Recent Posts widget with: add_filter( ‘widget_display_callback’, function( $instance, $obj, $args ) { // Only target Recent Posts widgets if( ‘recent-posts’ === $obj->id_base ) … Read more

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