Comments on: WordPress 2.8+ Multi-Widgets

By: Alex Prokopenko

Alex Prokopenko — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:14:33 +0000

Hi Greg. You can try to print class object ($this) inside the function you need and there you will see class property which has instance number.

By: Greg Bowen

Greg Bowen — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:20:26 +0000

This is great! It is working well. Question: One of my plugins calls javascript, but needs to call a separate javascript file for each instance. Is there a way to get the instance of the widget, as in 1, 2 or 3 (etc)?

By: Boribiz

Boribiz — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:42:41 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for the tutorial. I’m a newbie, anywway you look at it. I foudn a widget that I love, Iframeless, but I can’t even get my head around how to make it multi-widget. I’ve tried emailing ht developers, but no reply. Their php file is short and refers to an outside source I think for the attributes of their widget. ‘http://wordpressiframe.omadataobjects.com‘ Any dieas are welcomed!

Thank you for the tutorial! I’ll be learning my way through

Boriana

By: himanshu

himanshu — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:14:13 +0000

how to change the color of recent posts in front end with wordpress 3.0.1

By: Dineshkumar

Dineshkumar — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:20:39 +0000

I am using select box to list the category names in my widget.For instance ,select box list 3 categories.I have added 2 widget in my sidebar.When i click widget edit in admin page it displays the categories as in order.I want select box to display what i chosen for that widget . Please help me to fix this….

By: Writing a WordpressMU Widget

Writing a WordpressMU Widget — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:17:56 +0000

[...] a bit more searching, I came across a nice tutorial explaining how to build a multiple-instance widget. I got that all put together, but found that things still didn’t work quite right because of [...]

By: michalbroz

michalbroz — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:33:12 +0000

Great article. Except these mistakes:
1)
Its only PHP 4, but we may use PHP5 here. Its easy, simply use:
function __construct(){
parent::__construct();
}
instead of
function My_Widget() {
parent::WP_Widget();
}

2)
function attribute_escape() – is deprecated in WP.

3)
labelname is not correct.
Use this instead:
labelname

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:53:07 +0000

I found the problem. In the download version the ‘class’ => ‘my-widget-class’ is missing from the Parent:: line

Also you need to add the class to the label tags :

echo “\r\n”.”.__(‘Title’,'my-widget-class’)

It only seems to be IE that has a problem if that isn’t there.

Hope that helps.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:01:51 +0000

It doesn’t seem to work on Internet Explorer 8. I simply included your file at the end of a plugin I’ve got and the widget appears on the widgets page but its not draggable. This is under wordpress 2.9.2

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:07:27 +0000

Thank you for your tutorial!

I would like to enable the users to add fields in the general admin/setting/myplugin of the admin.
Do I have to make this widget first into a plugin?
Can you point me to a place where I can learn how to add dynamic input fields.

Thanks again