Widget development: should I use echo or return on the widget function?

  • jonathas.duarte

    (@jonathasduarte)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve been writing a plugin with a few widgets and using echo on the widget function to output the contents. However, a friend of mine said I should add the content to a variable and then echo it at the end, since it’s a better practice:

    function widget {
    $content  = '<div class="row">';
    $content .= 'content bla bla bla';
    $content .= '</div>';

    return $content;
}

    Will this work? What’s your view about that, having in mind PHP but also WordPress conventions?

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