I’ve inserted a WP 3.5 media uploader into a widget by running this JavaScript when a button is clicked on: var frame = wp.media( { title : ‘Widget Uploader’, multiple : false, library : { type : ‘image’ }, button : { text : ‘Select Image’ } } ); frame.on( ‘close’, function() { var attachments … 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 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 don’t want to style the default widget with only CSS. I want to display the default ‘Categories’ widget content with my own HTML structure. Is there available any filter or hook to do that? 3 To expand on Mark’s answer, there’s not much (generally) available in the way of filters in the default WordPress … Read more
I’m trying to include a checkbox in my widget back end. But I cannot get the value (on or off) after the user submits it. I thought the value would be stored in “esc_attr( $check )” (as it is when using a text input), but I cannot retrieve it. This is what I’m trying now: … Read more
I have widgets that have javascript controls attached to them. If the widget is present when the widget admin page loads, the controls work correctly. When I add a new widget, they do not work correctly, I get the markup, but no javascript events take effect. If I save the new widget, when the form … Read more
With the new WordPress 3.8 under Screen Options they seem to have misplaced the “Columns” feature where you could put your widgets into 1 Column, 2 Columns, 3 Columns, or 4 Columns. My question is how to I force my Dashboard Widgets to only be 1 column, or in other words, take up the whole … 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
Customer asks if a specific carousel plugin he uses can be widgetized. That means I should create a widget inside functions.php which calls the plugin’s function. That means that the plugin’s code has to be loaded first so that the function be available to WordPress when the functions.php file is loaded, right? Would that work? … Read more
Is there an easy to understand scheme to decide what kind of code belongs to a plugin or the theme’s functions.php? There are many cases and many debates about that topic, mostly because there are some misconceptions about the inner workings of WordPress. I am asking for an answer based on facts, not on opinions. … Read more
