Replace dashboard widgets with banner ad

I know it’s probably not encouraged, but is there a way to replace the standard dashboard widgets (Recent Drafts, Quickpress, etc.) with a standard image banner ad? I know how to add new dashboard widgets, but I want this to be a plain image with no surrounding widget. 3 Answers 3 Check this reference http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-add-custom-dashboard-widgets-in-wordpress/ … Read more

Dynamic widgets

In wordpress is it possible to have different widgets on different pages, I mean, I am having a form widget which has to be just displayed on posts page, it should just display on single.php Is this possible? Is their any plugin for this? 5 Answers 5 Hi @ntechi: Look at the plugin Widget Logic.

Read file contents the WP way

I’m developing a sidebar widget. I need to read a txt file in a particular directory of the website. I can do it with file_get_contents or readfile PHP functions, but what’s the best way to safely do it in WordPress? (I don’t know if the information is useful, but once red the content, I simply … Read more

Insert widgets after theme installation [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Closed 9 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Install widget on plugin activation Programmatically add widgets to sidebars I’m creating a theme and after the installation it is need put the widgets. Exists any way to setup some widgets automatically? Some specific function to make it? Thanks in advance! 0

Widgets not expanding on wordpress 3.3 widget dashbord

I updated to WordPress 3.3 (manual update) and cleaned browser cache. Widgets dashbord stop working when tring to expand dynamic sidebars for custom theme when it works for previous wordpress 3.2 installation (using register sidebar on functions.php) I have tried to install Hotfix 0.8 exension and now it works for twentyten theme but not for … Read more