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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

You're reading from   Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Master the fundamentals of WordPress theme development and create attractive WordPress themes from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286641
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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The custom showcase widget plugin

In this section we'll create a custom widget for our theme. We have the showcase area on our web page and we will create a widget that can take in a title and some text, and will spit it out right in the widget position.

If we look at the documentation page at https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API for the Widgets API, what we need to do basically is create a class that extends WP_Widget, and it's going to have a few different methods. It'll have a constructor to call the constructor of the parent class and also set up the title and description, the widget method that will output the content of the widget, the form method that will output the admin form, and update that will take care of updating any fields.

We'll go into the wp-content | plugins folder and create a new folder there, showcase-widget (although it is a plugin...

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