How to edit Widgets / Links with dynamic sidebar

  • acaponiti

    (@acaponiti)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    Hey everyone,

    I am working from a custom theme template with a widgetized sidebar (dynamic_sidebar). I have been successfully in changing the headers of widgets that are hardcoded into the sidebar (see Archives and Categories).

    I don’t know how to change the headings for the Links (About and Support) and Widgets (Popular Tags) have I added through the WP 2.7 dashboard. I’ve tried to look through the main style.css and make changes but nothing seems to work for me.

    How do I change the headings to appear like the headings from my hardcoded widgets?

    http://starburbsblog.com

    Hoping somebody can help save me hours of trying to figure this out.

    Thanks!

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    wp-includes/widgets.php is where the native widget code resides.

    Also consider using Otto’s php code widget so that you don’t have to modify core code.

    Thread Starter acaponiti

    (@acaponiti)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks! Is this the line of code in the wp-includes/widgets.php file that controls the appearance of the header?

    $defaults = array(
    ‘name’ => sprintf(__(‘Sidebar %d’), $i ),
    ‘id’ => “sidebar-$i”,
    ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’,
    ‘after_widget’ => “\n”,
    ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”widgettitle”>’,
    ‘after_title’ => “</h2>\n”,

    Also, is Otto’s php code widget the same as the ExecPHP plug-in. I downloaded the plug-in but had a bit of trouble getting up-to speed on it.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    wp-includes/widgets.php file that controls the appearance of the header?

    Looks right…

    Also, is Otto’s php code widget the same as the ExecPHP plug-in. I downloaded the plug-in but had a bit of trouble getting up-to speed on it.

    Otto’s plugin allows code in a widget, the other allows code in a post’s content.

    Thread Starter acaponiti

    (@acaponiti)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    wp-includes/widgets.php file that controls the appearance of the header? Looks right…

    I modified h2 to h1, but it did not alter blog. I’m extremely frustrated and lost. Is there anything else I can do?

    Otto’s plugin allows code in a widget, the other allows code in a post’s content.

    Thanks!

    FendyBt2

    (@fendybt2)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    Otto’s plugin allows code in a widget, the other allows code in a post’s content.

    FYI, ExecPHP plugins now allowed code executions in the text widget.

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