Alex Cragg

i got an unexpected t variable error when i tried with the !empty, hence why i came up with the other way.
it would definitely be improved functionality if the h2 tags were removed by default if they were left empty, IMHO.

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you edited before i could reply! hope all that helped dwzemens

and actually, ive realised that this was something i wanted to do a while back, and never worked out how, so ive helped myself out here too!!
😀

i take it you tried here?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates#Show_the_Category_Posts

maybe you could put something in that says, if the category is the title, exclude children of it….
but in php…..dont spose thats much help really!

thanks for helping out otto, i didnt know what to do, so i just put the code that i knew needed to be changed, so you’re right, that was what the text widget already did! 🙂

look for this section, its near the top

function register_sidebar($args = array()) {
	global $registered_sidebars;

	if ( is_string($args) )
		parse_str($args, $args);

	$defaults = array(
		'name' => sprintf(__('Sidebar %d', 'widgets'), count($registered_sidebars) + 1 ),
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => "</li>\n",
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => "</h2>\n",
	);

the end bit is what puts the h2 tags in, you could probably create a statement so that if the input was blank, it would remove them, or maybe give a different class, that you could style differently? this would change the h2 tag for every widget though, not just the text one.

the text widget code is low down,

function widget_text($args, $number = 1) {
	extract($args);
	$options = get_option('widget_text');
	$title = $options[$number]['title'];
	if ( empty($title) )
		$title = ' ';
	$text = $options[$number]['text'];
?>
		<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
			<?php $title ? print($before_title . $title . $after_title) : null; ?>
			<div class="textwidget"><?php echo $text; ?></div>
		<?php echo $after_widget; ?>

maybe look at removing some of the calls for before and after title, this would just effect the text one, not all.

all a bit of a guess really, never done it myself.
hope it points you in the right direction

very much so!

have a look at dan cameron’s search everything plugin
http://www.dancameron.org/wordpress