Becki Beckmann

well … actually i didn’t do any changes at all! not one single bit!

the sites use the default twenty ten theme … but i will give twenty eleven a try and will report back 😉

thanks

hey duck__boy 😉

you’re the man! custom widgets saved my day 😉

did create my custom widget class extending from WP_Widget and saved the code in the themes function.php file

then registered my custom widget ->
register_widget(‘myCustomWidget’);

and voila … in the admin panel the widget shows up and i can drag & drop it into the sidebar …

no more modifying of WP core files … problem solved 😉

thanks again for pointing me towards the right direction!

greetz
becki

hello duck__boy,

thanks for your reply … i will copy the original and modified code below so you can have a look what i’m trying to achive ->

original code first ->

function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract( $args );

		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? __( 'Pages' ) : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
		$sortby = empty( $instance['sortby'] ) ? 'menu_order' : $instance['sortby'];
		$exclude = empty( $instance['exclude'] ) ? '' : $instance['exclude'];

		if ( $sortby == 'menu_order' )
			$sortby = 'menu_order, post_title';

		$out = wp_list_pages( apply_filters('widget_pages_args', array('title_li' => '', 'echo' => 0, 'sort_column' => $sortby, 'exclude' => $exclude) ) );

		if ( !empty( $out ) ) {
			echo $before_widget;
			if ( $title)
				echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
		?>
		<ul>
			<?php echo $out; ?>
		</ul>
		<?php
			echo $after_widget;
		}
	}

modified function follows ->

function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract( $args );

		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? __( 'Pages' ) : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
		$sortby = empty( $instance['sortby'] ) ? 'menu_order' : $instance['sortby'];
		$exclude = empty( $instance['exclude'] ) ? '' : $instance['exclude'];

		if ( $sortby == 'menu_order' )
			$sortby = 'menu_order, post_title';

		$out = wp_list_pages( apply_filters('widget_pages_args', array('title_li' => '', 'echo' => 0, 'sort_column' => $sortby, 'exclude' => $exclude) ) );

		if ( !empty( $out ) ) {
			// echo $before_widget; core hack
			if ( $title)
				// echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; core hack
		?>
		<ul class="vlist">
			<?php echo $out; ?>
		</ul>
		<?php
			// echo $after_widget; core hack
		}
	}

so … what am i modifying?

first i need to remove the $before & $after_widget
then i need to remove the $title from the widget …
last … i need to add a CSS class named ‘vlist’ to the
‘ul’ container
this is a request from my customer … he doesn’t want to have the widget title ‘pages’

what’s the best way to achieve this without modifying the core files?

thanks & fun
becki

hello 2ells,

thanks a lot for your reply and pointing me to the right direction.
just had a look through some other posts in this forum and someone asked a similar question ->

so … my question has been answered 😉 thanks for your help!

greetings
becki