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1. Jeriko
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi!

   Since two of the standard widgets supplied by the plugin are making trouble with the theme I've developed, I want to unregister them so they don't appear in the panel.

   However a

   unregister_sidebar_widget('Calendar');
unregister_sidebar_widget('Search');

   , which should be correct according to the plugin API, doesn't seem to work, the widgets still appear in the panel. Am I missing something?

   Cheers, Jeriko

2. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   The trick is unregistering them after the widgets plugin registers them. Since it registers them using the 'init' action hook at priority 5, the following will unregister them:

   function unregister_them() {
unregister_sidebar_widget('Calendar');
unregister_sidebar_widget('Search');
}
add_action('init','unregister_them',10);

3. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   While that will indeed work, it's not the best way. Relying on the priority is haphazard at best. Useful for a quick fix and such, but not really something you want to depend on.

   A better way is to notice that the widgets plugin has its own action hook for this sort of thing, called "widgets_init". It happens just after the Widgets plugin registers all its own widgets.

   function unregister_problem_widgets() {
unregister_sidebar_widget('Calendar');
unregister_sidebar_widget('Search');
}
add_action('widgets_init','unregister_problem_widgets');

4. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Good call, Otto42.

5. Jeriko
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Works like a charm, thank you so much

6. kretze
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thank you very much, same here. Works like charm.

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