(note: this question was originally about Custom Fields, but @MikeSchinkel had a better solution involving Custom Post Types) On my site I have several pages which I want to show the same data in the sidebar. For instance, in a structure like this: -Home -Cars -Volvo 850 overview -Volvo 850 tech spec -Volvo 850 pictures … Read more
I have the cPanel access to a website but no wordpress login info. So I wants to change a widget content in the website. How can I change it through phpmyadmin. Where are that widgets sidebar data actually stored? Is it inside wp-options table? 1 Widget options are stored in the options table under ‘sidebars_widgets’ … Read more
I want to give the Editor Role access to editing the sidebar and it’s contents. I have a text widget in there and in order to edit this text widget the user needs to be an admin – this sucks. How do I grant permission to the Editor Role that will give him access to … Read more
What is the difference with get_sidebar() and dynamic_sidebar()? I was wondering which one I should use. Maybe one use widgets and the other one doesn’t? 1 Please refer to the get_sidebar() and dynamic_sidebar() Codex entries. The get_sidebar( $slug ) template tag includes the sidebar-$slug.php template-part file. The dynamic_sidebar( $slug ) template tag outputs the $slug … Read more
I’m listing all sidebars like that: global $wp_registered_sidebars; echo ‘<pre>’; print_r($wp_registered_sidebars); echo ‘</pre>’ So I’m getting something like: Array ( [sidebar-1] => Array ( [name] => Sidebar #1 [id] => sidebar-1 List all sidebar names? => Sidebar number 1 [before_widget] => [after_widget] => [before_title] => [after_title] => ) (…) ) But I’d love to display … Read more
If I use a custom widgetized area (for example footer) where there is only a limited number of spots for widgets (by design), can I limit the number of widgets the user may include in that specific widgetized area? It doesn’t matter if the solution is at the backend or the front end. Thank you. … Read more
I am registering sidebars automatically for each category (a separate widget space per category). The technique I’m using is here. In the admin side I have an options page where I need to display a dropdown of all registered sidebars… Is there are way to dynamically get this list of registered sidebars? since they’re being … Read more
I needed a way to filter a page/posts content before it was loaded so I could add scripts to the header if a specific shortcode was present. After much searching I came across this on http://wpengineer.com function has_my_shortcode($posts) { if ( empty($posts) ) return $posts; $found = false; foreach ($posts as $post) { if ( … Read more
I would like to programmatically add widgets to my two sidebars that I’ve got. I couldn’t find any official way of doing it? I started looking in the database. I’ve found that it’s the ‘sidebars_widgets’ option which puts widgets on sidebars. When looking at the options the widget names has a number added to the … Read more
