Call a Widget with a Shortcode - PHP Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 25903

at April 13, 2010 16:36 by gd6d

Initial Code

function widget($atts) {
    
    global $wp_widget_factory;
    
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
        'widget_name' => FALSE
    ), $atts));
    
    $widget_name = wp_specialchars($widget_name);
    
    if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$widget_name], 'WP_Widget')):
        $wp_class = 'WP_Widget_'.ucwords(strtolower($class));
        
        if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$wp_class], 'WP_Widget')):
            return '<p>'.sprintf(__("%s: Widget class not found. Make sure this widget exists and the class name is correct"),'<strong>'.$class.'</strong>').'</p>';
        else:
            $class = $wp_class;
        endif;
    endif;
    
    ob_start();
    the_widget($widget_name, $instance, array('widget_id'=>'arbitrary-instance-'.$id,
        'before_widget' => '',
        'after_widget' => '',
        'before_title' => '',
        'after_title' => ''
    ));
    $output = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    return $output;
    
}
add_shortcode('widget','widget');

Initial URL

http://digwp.com/2010/04/call-widget-with-shortcode/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiggingIntoWordpress+%28Digging+Into+WordPress%29

Initial Description

Initial Title

Call a Widget with a Shortcode

Initial Tags

wordpress

Initial Language

PHP

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