Doesn't hide subscribe widget title

Hi edscott,

Sorry – I missed this request. Which widgets doin’t work? Are they created by the theme or a plugin (and if so, which plugin).

The plugin will work if the widgets have been created in the right way, but some plugins (and themes) leave out some code that is needed for Remove Widget Titles to work.

Hi edscott,

Okay, I’ve had a look at Simple Subscribe and it creates widgets slightly differently than WordPress itself does. It doesn’t use apply_filters on the widget title, which means Remove Widget Titles has not way of working.

I’ll contact the Simple Subscribe authors and see if they are willing to change their plugin, but I obviously can’t promise anything on their behalf. I’ve done this a couple of times and I had one plugin author make the change very quickly, but I’ve also had another plugin author ignore me totally.

Fingers crossed!

Hi edscott,

Here is the email I sent to the developers of Simple Subscribe – it includes instructions on how to change it. Note however, that if you change it, but they don’t add this to the plugin, then the next time you update the plugin your changes will be lost. Also, please make a backup of your site before trying to change this as if you get it wrong you could break your site!

Here is the email I sent:

I’m trying to contact the developer of the Simple Subscribe WordPress plugin.

I’m the developer of the Remove Widget Titles plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-widget-titles/). My plugin removes the title of Widgets with a “!” in front of them, so they don’t show on the front end (but you can still enter the title on the backend so you know which widget it is).

We have a joint customer who is trying to get my plugin to work with a Simple Subscribe widget. However it won’t work because of the way the Simple Subscribe widget is created. It leaves out a couple steps that the default WordPress plugins (and many other plugins such as EDD) include:

a) applying the widget_title filter; and
b) checking that the widget title isn’t empty before outputting $before_title and $after_title

Is it possible for you to add these to Simple Subscribe?

In case you are willing to add it, I’ve included the code (although I’m sure there are other ways to do this too). You need to add the following code at line 83 in the libs/SimpleSubscribe/Frontend.php file (in Simple Subscribe v1.8.2):

$widgetTitle = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $widgetTitle );
if ( ! $widgetTitle ) {
    $args['before_title'] = '';
    $args['after_title'] = '';
}

Here is the before and after screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/3J3h0h1C0043

Also, I assume the same thing will need to be done at line 140 for the Unsubscription form.

Hope you can help! Thanks.