My first simple widget, and it doesnt work!
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Hi there wordpressers
Im trying to wrap my head around widgets and how to create them. Im having moderate success ??
I’ve made a simple widget with a textarea, nothing else.
It shows up under “Available Widgets”, and I can add it to “Current Widgets” without problems. But when I hit “Save Changes” it pops back to “Available Widgets” and doesn’t show up in the widget area on the site.I checked in the wp-options table in the database, and the text is saved like it should be.
Can anyone help me figuring out what Im doing wrong? This is the code:<?php if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) register_sidebar(array('name' => 'Sidebar', 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '<h2>', 'after_title' => '</h2>', )); if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) register_sidebar(array('name' => 'Below Content', 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '<h2>', 'after_title' => '</h2>', )); function myTestWidget() { $settings = get_option("widget_mytestwidget"); $text = $settings['text'];?> <div class="widget"> <div class="wrap"> <h2>Test Widget</h2> <p><?php echo $number; ?></p> </div> </div> <?php } function myTestWidgetAdmin() { $settings = get_option("widget_mytestwidget"); // check if anything's been sent if (isset($_POST['update_test'])) { $settings['text'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['mytest_text'])); update_option("widget_mytestwidget",$settings); } echo '<p style="text-align: right;"> <label for="mytest_text"> Text: <textarea id="mytest_text" name="mytest_text" type="text" style="width: 200px;" value="'.$settings['text'].'" /></textarea></label></p>'; echo '<input type="hidden" id="update_test" name="update_test" value="1″ />'; } register_sidebar_widget('My Test Widget', 'myTestWidget'); register_widget_control('My Test Widget', 'myTestWidgetAdmin', 300, 200); ?>
Oh and im doing it in the functions.php theme file, if that matters.
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