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In a WordPress Framework or Basic-Theme are one or several Widget Areas (Sidebars) defined. But how can you remove the widget areas if you don’t need them and just confuse other backend users. ...

https://wpengineer.com/2049/wordpress-child-themes-remove-widget-areas/

For the last door in our Advent Calendar I had something special in mind. This year is coming to an end and I’m sure some of our readers want to quit smoking next year. To support their goal, I...

https://wpengineer.com/1918/24th-door-the-wpe-quit-smoking-widget/

Welcome to our 6th door of our Advent Calendar. 🙂 If you use widgets in your theme and this also accommodates a variety of hierarchies, you will quickly realize that it really only makes sense...

https://wpengineer.com/1873/check-for-widgets-in-widget-areas/

Especially in Germany we have the tradition of an Advent Calendar. An Advent calendar is a special calendar which is used to count down the days from December the 1st to Christmas Eve December 24...

https://wpengineer.com/1875/advent-calendar-24-days-tips-and-tricks-each-day-today-wordpress-comment-form-widget/

You do not always want to have all the widgets active, which comes within the WordPress core. You can disable the unneccessary Widgets in your functions.php of your theme with a small function. T...

https://wpengineer.com/1650/deactivate-wordpress-default-widgets/

Since WordPress 2.8, there is a new Widget API. In our post Build A WordPress 2.8 Widget With The New Widget API, I have used a simple example to describe how to build a Widget. This time Heiko a...

https://wpengineer.com/1551/wordpress-2-8-single-post-navigation-widget/

It’s not uncommon that a blog runs by different authors, so it may be useful if you can have a quick look at the drafts of all authors. In our joint blog WP Engineer we created a feed, which ke...

https://wpengineer.com/1343/recents-drafts-all-authors/

In the current trunk of WordPress is a “first run” of the new widget management available to see. This is a development version, it shows the warning “This page is not 100% ready, please us...

https://wpengineer.com/1124/wordpress-28-widgets-options-page/

One of the main changes in WordPress 2.8 is the new widget API. This API is fully object oriented and provides the programmer all the necessary functions to create a WordPress widgets. Also, it n...

https://wpengineer.com/1023/wordpress-built-a-widget/

Everyone who is building WordPress Themes probably implement the widget function in their theme. Code for the widgets is in functions.php. Here a code snippet of the default theme: if ( function_...

https://wpengineer.com/657/wordpress-and-register_sidebar/