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Call a Widget with a Shortcode

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  1. function widget($atts) {
  2.  
  3.     global $wp_widget_factory;
  4.  
  5.     extract(shortcode_atts(array(
  6.         'widget_name' => FALSE
  7.     ), $atts));
  8.  
  9.     $widget_name = wp_specialchars($widget_name);
  10.  
  11.     if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$widget_name], 'WP_Widget')):
  12.         $wp_class = 'WP_Widget_'.ucwords(strtolower($class));
  13.  
  14.         if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$wp_class], 'WP_Widget')):
  15.             return '<p>'.sprintf(__("%s: Widget class not found. Make sure this widget exists and the class name is correct"),'<strong>'.$class.'</strong>').'</p>';
  16.         else:
  17.             $class = $wp_class;
  18.         endif;
  19.     endif;
  20.  
  21.     ob_start();
  22.     the_widget($widget_name, $instance, array('widget_id'=>'arbitrary-instance-'.$id,
  23.         'before_widget' => '',
  24.         'after_widget' => '',
  25.         'before_title' => '',
  26.         'after_title' => ''
  27.     ));
  28.     $output = ob_get_contents();
  29.     ob_end_clean();
  30.     return $output;
  31.  
  32. }
  33. add_shortcode('widget','widget');

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