Comments on: WordPress Widget System – How it Works

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 05:37:54 +0000

First of all, about your website…I totally LOVE the imagery! Whoever did the art is VERY good. Usually programmers are not that great artists…they use different sides of the brain, so people are usually good at one or the other, but not both. But I must say, your art is simply fantastic…and the coding information in regard to WordPress widgets, is really awesome also. This information is exactly what I was looking for. (though I don’t know if it’s going to help me exactly)

I have a problem that I have a testimonials plugin that has a widget, which was working fine, until I changed from a Windows to a Linux server, AND updated WordPress to the latest version, all at the same time. Now I have almost the entire site back up again after some headaches, and messing around in the database and fixing some links…but this damn widget is not working. The files (testimonials posts ) are there, the custom sidebars are there, and the other stuff on the sidebars are working, just not this particular widget. And it’s a great widget…I don’t want to lose it. If you want to look at the site (cause it’s not “my” site that I entered above) it’s http://walkingtreeoflife.com …though i don’t know if you (or anyone) can help with just the URL or not…but there it is. Thanks for taking the time to write this great post.

By: klwk

klwk — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:58:47 +0000

do you know is it possible to manually clear all sidebar widgets information (i.e. reset) so that we can assign widgets from the beginning again? Because I have a problem now I cannot access Appearance – Widgets page, it turns into a blank page showing nothing. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

By: Amit Sukapure

Amit Sukapure — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:43:57 +0000

This is the great article, really useful for developers.
I have one query, can we get widget title and content by widget id?

By $wp_registered_widgets we can get details of widgets but not title and content. Is there any variable or function available?

Thanks for this article.

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:28:44 +0000

In reply to stef1979. Presumably you can just go through the WP global variable $wp_registered_widgets and extract the ids from there.

By: stef1979

stef1979 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:00:01 +0000

DO you know how I can programmatically access all available widgets and their ids?

By: ShibaShake

ShibaShake — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:30:35 +0000

In reply to Srikanth S.

Sounds very similar to what Widget Logic does.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

By: Srikanth S

Srikanth S — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:58:09 +0000

Thank you for the concise writeup. But how do i search and catch a particular widget instance (custom menu widget instance with name as ‘my home’) in the sidebar and hide it conditionally ? Any help will be really appreciated.

By: Rob Kay

Rob Kay — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:23:53 +0000

You’re an absolute star. That was so clear & contained all the information I needed. Thankyou!

By: Wei

Wei — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:45:25 +0000

Very helpful post, thanks! I couldn’t find information on setting the $sidebars_widgets variable anywhere else online, not even on the WP codex.

By: superposts

superposts — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:21:25 +0000

hi
thanks for the information but i want to know, if a plugin has only widget enabled and does not have a shortcode or if there are no hint to function call, how can i call the function of that plugin?
thanks