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    • June 6, 2014 at 1:19 pm #1805
      s1r0n
      Member

      I am trying to create a widget. I seem to be able to do that however under the “available widgets” screen, the plugin widget appears as a blank box. I have the following code in the

      global-scholar-article.php file

      <?php
/*
Title: Global Scholar Article
Description: Output article information, social links, etc.
*/
?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
 
<?php echo $before_title; ?>
 
<?php echo $after_title; ?>
 
<?php echo 'Put some stuff here';

?>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>

      Screen cap

    • June 6, 2014 at 8:05 pm #1806
      Steve
      Keymaster

      This code sample looks like a Widget OUTPUT file. It looks like you have a Widget SETTINGS file saved as well that is causing the widget to display that field. You can learn more about Widgets here >

    • June 7, 2014 at 6:10 pm #1808
      s1r0n
      Member

      ya. i read that. something is not right though. As you can see in the screenshot the widget itself is just a blank box. When I add the widget to a sidebar I get a dropdown to select the widget. when I add and save, the widget does not provide any output, even though it probably should, I think.

      here is the code for global-scholar-article-form.php

      <?php
/*
Title: Global Scholar Article Widget
Description: Output article information, social links, etc.
*/

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'text'
  ,'field' => 'article_widget_title'
  ,'label' => 'Title'
  ,'description' => 'Title'
  ,'value' => 'Global Scholar'
  ,'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'text'
  )
));

?>

      and here is the code for global-scholar-article.php

      <?php
/*
Title: Global Scholar Article Widget
Description: Output article information, social links, etc.
*/
?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
 
<?php echo $before_title; ?>
 
<?php echo $after_title; ?>
 
<?php echo 'Put some stuff here';

?>

<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
    • June 8, 2014 at 1:28 pm #1809
      Steve
      Keymaster

      You are outputting “put some stuff here”. Replace it with <?php echo $settings['article_widget_title']; ?>

    • June 8, 2014 at 6:00 pm #1810
      s1r0n
      Member

      Still get nothing. nothing it getting output. and the title and description of the widget are not showing up 🙁

    • June 9, 2014 at 2:48 pm #1813
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @s1r0n– This works for me:

      FILE: global-scholar-article.php

      <?php
/*
Title: Global Scholar Article Widget
Description: Output article information, social links, etc.
*/
?>
<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
 
<?php echo $before_title; ?>

<?php echo $settings['article_widget_title']; ?>

<?php echo $after_title; ?>
 
<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
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