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1. squidz
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I am trying to target a specific widget to append a "all news" link below it's list of recent news posts, titles only.

   $widget_id is mentioned in the Other Notes for Widget Logic and it seems to be the perfect solution. However, there is no example regarding what to DO with the $widget_id variable within a function.

   so far I have:

   function all_news_link($content='', $widget_id'){
   ?><div>TEST</div><?php
   return $content;
   }
   add_filter('widget_content','all_news_link');

   I simply want to modify this so that the div with "TEST" in it will only show up on this specific widget with the ID="query-posts-3"

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

2. alanft
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   it's a filter function - air gets the HTML to output ($content) and (in this case) the widget ID. all you have to do is modify the $content and return it. a bit like the code at the end of http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/other_notes/

   something like

   return $content."<div>TEST</div>";

   will give you the right idea

3. squidz
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   alanft -

   My "Test" content shows up just fine. BUT it shows in ALL widgets. So, what I don't understand is how the function knows what the $widget_id variable is.

   Hows does $widget_id get a value (presumably the widget ID "query-posts-3") assigned to it?

   I've played with this for days now with only the ability to append text to every widget I'm using. That is why I'm here asking for assistance. I do not know how to get the plugin/function to ONLY apply the text "TEST" to the one widget I'm targeting.

4. wrsowner
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   The $widget_id is a string value that represents the CSS style ID for the LI that contains the widget (i.e., <li id="text-3">widget stuff</li>
   ... in this case, $widget_id = "text-3"). It's not a value to change, but a value that changes based on the particular widget being dealt with by WP at a given moment. A good example to see it in action is to set up 2-3 widgets in a test site, and place the following in your functions.php file:

   add_filter('widget_content', 'my_widget_function', 90, 2);
   function my_widget_function( $content='', $widget_id='') {
       return $content . '<p>This widget\'s style ID = ' . $widget_id . '</p>';
   }

   So, as you will see, each widget will contain whatever content is already in it AND at the end of each widget's content will be "This widget's style ID = <current widget ID>".

   HTH.

5. alanft
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   @squidz, you have to change your function. first off get rid of the text that outputs the TEST text every time it's called

   ?><div>TEST</div><?php

   and instead get it to RETURN the text you want, e.g.

   return $content."ID=".$widget_id;

   which will instead put the widget_id at the end of the widget content. Then you can alter it to have conditional changes to what it returns.

6. squidz
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   We worked it out and have it under control now Alan. But it took a bunch of trial and error.

   Widget Logic isone of the most useful plugins around and this particular feature can quite powerful too. To allow people that aren't full-on developers to exploit it, including a clear and straightforward example of how to use the feature on Widget Logic's "Other Notes" page would be a wonderful thing.

7. alanft
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   i've added a tiny bit extra text in the documentation (not yet updated on wordpress.org) that should give people the nudge needed.

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