Outside the Loop

  • henkboersema

    (@henkboersema)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I would really like to use this plugin in another plugin. It’s a different plugin to show categories in a widget. I’m trying to pit the icon in a variable to use.

    if (function_exists(‘the_icon’)) {$icons = the_icon(‘size=small’); }

    But this doesn’t work. How do I show the icons in a different plugin?

    If you help I will donate.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/simple-category-icons/

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  • Plugin Author Bas Schuiling

    (@basszje)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    You can use it inside a plugin in multiple ways. Either use the direct functions. Within the plugin there a two, a bit like WordPress works as well:

    the_icon
    get_the_icon

    The first one is to display and output directly the icon, the second one you can use to get the icon in any case.

    get_the_icon($args, $term_type = ‘category’,$id = null, $use_term_id = null)

    $args = just the same as the_icon in the manual
    $id -> If you are outside the loop you have to pass an post or taxonomy ID there.

    For instance if you want to get an icon of a certain category it would look like

    $icon = get_the_icon(array(), null, $category_id, true );

    The $use_term_id which is set to true here is also important. If it’s set to null it’ll try to get the icon from a post id (via the terms), if it’s set to true (or whatever) it’ll use the passed ID as a term (i.e. category ) id.

    Btw if you only want the URL to be returned instead of an object you can give this in the $args;

    i.e. $args = array(“returnFull” => true);

    I hope this is a little bit clear, otherwise please ask or check the source, it’s pretty self-explanatory

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