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'id', 'class' and 'show heading' attributes for widgets

1. Gal Baras
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   I often don't want to display widget headings, so I set them to ' ' (blank), but that still puts the H3 tag into the code and sometimes interferes with styling.

   To allow further styling, I often create a text widget with its content wrapped inside a container with an 'id' or a 'class', which I then style. Very often, I include the H3 tag there too.

   I suggest that widgets allow the assignment of the 'id' and 'class' attributes for styling purposes, as well as a tickbox for not showing the heading at all.

   Posted: 7 years ago #

2. Cristian Giordano
   Member

   If you are a theme developer you can assign this dynamically using something like the following code:

   $args = array(
   	'name'			=> 'Blog Sidebar',
   	'id'			=> 'blog-widget-area',
   	'description'		=> '',
   	'before_widget'		=> '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   	'after_widget'		=> '</li>',
   	'before_title'		=> '<h3 class="widget-title">',
   	'after_title'		=> '</h3>'
   );
   
   register_sidebar( $args );

   You can then target specific widgets using css. Does that make sense?

   Posted: 7 years ago #

3. Gal Baras
   Inactive

   That doesn't actually address my needs and certainly doesn't cater for people who aren't theme developers.

   Within the same sidebar, I want to be able to turn off headings for some widgets, but not all. I also want to style some widgets a certain way and some in another way in the same sidebar. And I want to be able to do all this from within the widget admin page, which I think is very possible.

   Using widget IDs as per your code gets messed up as soon as I make changes to the widgets, because WordPress may reassign their numbers. Even if not, it requires making CSS changes for every single widget, which is a lot more work than necessary.

   Posted: 7 years ago #

4. Dzikri Aziz
   Member

   Empty heading/title is the widget's author responsibility. A good widget should never output the title when it's set to blank by the user.

   As for the ID and classes, you may want to try my plugin

   Posted: 7 years ago #

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