alexleonard

Also, I’ve noticed that my plugins page seems to not be showing that there are updates available to some of the plugins that I have installed (even though I know there are updates available and at first it was showing these available updates).

Brilliant! I had a feeling I was going a long way around and I think I understand a little better how Word Press works now.

Thanks a lot. I’ll go and try to implement this now and get back to you if I have any troubles.

Cheers.
Alex

I have gotten the feeling in the last few days that I really need to learn more about PHP.. I just don’t think I fully understand it yet.

I’m self taught and have generally just been using it for useful tweaks and templating.

I’m so used to being corrected by the system telling me what line I’ve made an error on, and when the plugin fails to activate I feel a little like a blind child stumbling around in a dark forest…. well, maybe it’s not that bad, but you know what I mean.

I can definitely see that Widgets make way more sense from the point of view of reusable code, easier adjustments in the future, and the option of letting non-coders change their sidebars easily. I think I just have a bit of a way to go yet. Time to talk to zend?

I might have answered my own question on this one.. taking lead from the default text widget bundled in widgets.php I noticed the “How many text widgets would you like?” question.

So I suppose it is just down to me creating/editing current widgets using:

function wp_widget_text_page() {
	$options = $newoptions = get_option('widget_text');
?>
	<div class="wrap">
		<form method="POST">
			<h2><?php _e('Text Widgets'); ?></h2>
			<p style="line-height: 30px;"><?php _e('How many text widgets would you like?'); ?>
			<select id="text-number" name="text-number" value="<?php echo $options['number']; ?>">
<?php for ( $i = 1; $i < 10; ++$i ) echo "<option value='$i' ".($options['number']==$i ? "selected='selected'" : '').">$i</option>"; ?>
			</select>
			<span class="submit"><input type="submit" name="text-number-submit" id="text-number-submit" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Save')); ?>" /></span></p>
		</form>
	</div>
<?php
}

and a little more…!

Still it seems like a lot of coding, I wonder is this something that couldn’t be built in by default. Instead of people having to work out their for loops etc 🙂