PHP newbie here, recently decided to have a stab at cobbling together a kooky little ‘Random Author Spotlight’ feature into my current WordPress theme. I’m almost done, but I’ve hit something of a snag: I need to somehow make it so that my ‘spotlight’ will only select users with 1 post or more. Everyone whom … Read more
I am very well aware of how to make multiple sidebars. But I believe my way is not proper way of adding multiple sidebars. This is how I add multiple sidebars If I simply wants to create a sidebar then I use sidebar.php file. BUT if I want to use another sidebar then I have … Read more
I want to get a sidebar and save it in a Variable, This is impossible with the get_sidebar function since it simply prints out the sidebar, is there another function that I can use? 2 s 2 You probably need to use output buffering, if I understand your question correctly. Try something like this: ob_start(); … Read more
I know PHP well but I’m new to WordPress. I got an incomplete WordPress website. It has a static home page with an Aweber newsletter form. I tried digging into installed theme and in home.php I came across: <div class=”home-infobox”> <?php if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘homepage-infobox’ ) ) : ?> <?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘homepage-infobox’ ); ?> <?php … Read more
I would like to retrieve each widget existing in a sidebar in order e.g. to mix them with posts inside the main loop. I know I can use different widget areas (sidebars) but this approach clutters the widget admin page with some tens of sidebars. To mitigate this, I thought to just add them to … Read more
I have multiple “sidebars”, but not all of them are the same size. Not all widgets fit in all sidebars (for example, I have a “footer sidebar” where the client can place custom widgets, but they are wide, and don’t fit at all in the “real” sidebar). I want to give an indication when a … Read more
I’m trying to find away to retrive a dynamic sidebar from one blog and print it on another blog in the same install of WordPress Multisite. I have tried switch_to_blog($blog_id); dynamic_sidebar($sidebar_name); restore_current_blog(); But nothing is returned. I also tired to retrive the sidebar through get_blog_option($blog_id, ‘sidebar_widgets’) but I was only able to retrive an array … Read more
In my (page-only, no posts) WordPress site I have a number of static blobs in need to put in a sidebar. We could call/tream thoses ‘blobs’ as widgets. At least they’ll have a fixed html content, like ‘teaser1’, ‘teaser2’, ‘disclaimer’, ‘foo policy’… What I need, is to arrange them differently for every page. So this … Read more
How can I get the number of widgets that are active on a specific sidebar? Is there a core function for this? I want to add a class to each widget on a sidebar based on how many of them are displayed. Thanks. 4 s 4 After some research and based on the answer from … Read more
I’m actually using the qTranslate plugin to translate my website. It works really well with everything except one thing. the titles of my sidebar widgets. Actually, to translate some words we need to put tags like this: <!–:en–>My English Title<!–:–><!–:fr–>My French Title<!–:–> When I use this in the content of my widget it works well. … Read more
