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Ah I got it now. I had to enter the parameters on the homepage. I’ve been so caught up in the functions.php Code That I forgot about the homepage template.

Thank you for your help. If you want me to push the changes up to GitHub so you can just merge then let me know 🙂

Ok I’ve added that in. Interesting that the sidebar is showing the same ID as the footer though

Thanks.

Okay, so entering this into functions.php:

function homepage_grid( $post_html, $p, $instance ){

    // This is the sidebar widget, let's use the stock HTML output
    if ( isset($instance['widget_id']) ) {
        return $post_html;
    }

    // If we got here, then it's the wpp_get_mostpopular() template tag and so let's use a custom HTML output

    $categories = get_the_category($p->id);
    $category_output = '';

    if ( !empty($categories) ) {

        $category_output = 'Posted under ';

        foreach( $categories as $category ) {
            $category_output .= '<a href="' . esc_url( get_category_link( $category->term_id ) ) . '" alt="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts in %s' ), $category->name ) ) . '" rel="category tag">' . esc_html( $category->name ) . '</a>, ';
        }

        $category_output = rtrim( $category_output, ', ' );

    }

    $output = '
    <article class="one-fourth post" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">
        <div class="post-grid-featured-image"><a href="' . get_the_permalink($p->id) . '" rel="bookmark">' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $p->id, 'small-post-image') . '</a></div>
        <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text">
            <h3 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="' . get_the_permalink($p->id) . '" rel="bookmark">' . $p->title . '</a></h3>
            <div class="entry-author-info">
                <a href="' . get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), get_the_author_meta( 'user_nicename' ) ) . '">' . get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('email'), 50) . '</a><a href="' .  get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) . '">' . get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) .'</a>
            </div>
        </div>
        <footer>' . $category_output . '</footer>
    </article>';

    return $output;

}
add_action( 'wpp_post', 'homepage_grid', 10, 3 );

This in the location where I want the above to display on my homepage, inside the homepage template file:

<?php
    if (function_exists('wpp_get_mostpopular'))
        wpp_get_mostpopular();
?>

Literally just displays a list and view count of the popular posts. Instead of including the code that’s above with the thumbnail, category, author avatar etc.

The good thing is that now, the sidebar and footer widgets just display a list and nothing else, which is what I want.

I now just need to get the functions.php styling to appear when calling the wpp_get_mostpopular(); tag.

Am i missing something out of the above? Surely, i’d need to call the action on the homepage? Or can it just suss itself out?

Sorry to be annoying

So, near the bottom of the homepage, theres ‘featured posts’ in the same style as the rest of the homepage.

Then in the footer widget and post/page sidebar I just want a list. it’s trying to show all the images still in the sidebar

Hi Hector,

Thank you very much for your help so far on this, you’ve been a massive help. The site I am trying to build is this; speakwp.com just so you can get an idea of what I’m trying to achieve.

The above code works great for the main homepage. However, I can not seem to get it to separate from the widgets (footer and sidebar) so they listen to the actual widget information.

I understand what you’re saying above, I just can’t seem to get it to do what I want it to do. So at the moment, the footer and post sidebar widget is trying to show the same information that’s on the homepage, instead of a normal list (no thumbnails etc).

Maybe I’m doing something wrong. I’ve set ID’s in the widgets to try use the if_statement, it just won’t listen 🙁

Thanks again

*Edit. I didn’t realise enqueue safe jQuery was selected in the admin page. DOH!