[PATCH] Custom widget frontends

I want to display my featured posts with a layout. Below is a patch that lets you drop a sovit-featured-post.php file in your theme where you can loop through the posts and render however you want.

Change

function widget( $args, $instance )
{
	extract( $args );
	$title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance[ 'title' ] );

to

function widget( $args, $instance )
{
	extract( $args );
	$title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance[ 'title' ] );

	// Display custom widget frontend
	if ( $located = locate_template( 'sovit-featured-post.php' ) ) {
		require $located;
		return;
	}

Example Usage

Drop sovit-featured-post.php into your theme and add the following:

<?php

query_posts( 'post_type=' . $instance[ 'post_type' ] . '&showposts=' . $instance[ 'num' ] . '&featured=yes' );

// Don't show this widget if we have no featured posts
if ( !have_posts() )
	return;

echo $before_widget;

if ( $title )
	echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;

echo '<ul>';
while ( have_posts() ):
	the_post();

	echo '<li>';
		the_post_thumbnail();
	echo '</li>';
endwhile;
echo '</ul>';

echo $after_widget;

The above is a very simple example of showing a list of featured images using your plugin. If no featured images are found, it won’t display the widget at all.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/featured-post/