I think it’s stored in an option (I haven’t checked though). A quick look at the wp-admin/options.php page showed up the following option which might be where they’re stored.
Perhaps trying doing a var_dump() to see what’s in it. If it contains your current widget contents, then that’s the place you need to change 🙂
<?php var_dump( get_option( 'sidebars_widgets' ) ); ?>
I figured it out. Here is an example implementation which
includes registering sidebars ( kudos to Thematic which
contained the code that pointed me in the right direction).
<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
register_sidebar(array(
'id' => 'right-sidebar',
'description' => __( 'The primary sidebar'),
'name' => 'Right Sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div class="widget-here">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
register_sidebar(array(
'id' => 'bottom-left-sidebar',
'description' => __( 'The lower left sidebar'),
'name' => 'Bottom Left Sidebar',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
register_sidebar(array(
'id' => 'bottom-right-sidebar',
'description' => __( 'The lower right sidebar'),
'name' => 'Bottom Right Sidebar',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
}
?>
<?php
class wdwp1_google_search extends WP_Widget {
function wdwp1_google_search() {
$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'wdwpSearch','description' => __('Configurable Google Search Box'));
$control_ops = array('width' => 300, 'height' => 350);
$this->WP_Widget('wdwp_g_search', __('WDWP Google Search'), $widget_ops, $control_ops);
}
function form($instance) {
$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'result_page' => 'search-results', 'g_pub_id' => 'partner-pub-partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxx' ));
$result_page = $instance['result_page'];
$g_pub_id = $instance['g_pub_id'];
?>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('result_page'); ?>">
Name of search result page:
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('result_page'); ?>" type="text" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('result_page'); ?>" value="<?php echo esc_attr($result_page); ?>" />
</label>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('g_pub_id'); ?>">
Google Publisher Search ID:
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('g_pub_id'); ?>" type="text" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('g_pub_id'); ?>" value="<?php echo esc_attr($g_pub_id); ?>" />
</label>
<?php
}
//function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
// processes widget options to be saved
//}
function widget($args, $instance) {
extract( $args, EXTR_SKIP );
$result_page = ( $instance['result_page'] ) ? $instance['result_page'] : 'search-results';
$g_pub_id = ( $instance['g_pub_id'] ) ? $instance['g_pub_id'] : 'partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxx';
?>
<div id="searchbox">
<div class="inside">
<form action="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/<?php echo esc_attr($result_page); ?>" id="cse-search-box">
<div>
<fieldset>
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="<?php echo esc_attr($g_pub_id); ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:11" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" />
<input type="text" class="searchfield" name="q" size="20" />
<input type="submit" class="searchbutton" name="sa" value="Go" />
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
}
function wdwp_widgets_init() {
register_widget('wdwp1_google_search');
$default_widgets = array (
'right-sidebar' => array('wdwp_g_search-2')
);
if ( isset( $_GET['activated'] ) ) {
wdwp_defaultwidgets();
update_option( 'sidebars_widgets', apply_filters('wdwp_default_widgets',$default_widgets ));
}
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'wdwp_widgets_init');
function wdwp_defaultwidgets() {
do_action( 'wdwp_defaultwidgets' );
}
function wdwp_init_defaultwidgets() {
update_option( 'wdwpSearch', array( 2 => array( 'result_page' => 'search-results', 'g_pub_id' => 'partner-pub-partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxx' ), '_multiwidget' => 1 ) );
}
add_action( 'wdwp_defaultwidgets', 'wdwp_init_defaultwidgets' );
?>
If anyone is still reading this thread. I’m wondering how the code above is being implemented.
There is an apply_filters with a ‘wdwp_default_widgets’ tag which doesn’t appear to be anywhere in the code.
Any help would be great. I am also trying to programmatically add widgets to a sidebar.
cheers
Understanding how widgets are activated programmatically would help me on a “activate on other sites” button I’m trying to add to all widgets.
What I see here is there’s a missing function only comes with Thematic and the widget is being added is not from the the list of activated ones, but defined here.
Is there a way to add it programmatically but taking it from the list of available ones?
