nI’ve created a widget for users to choose an image to display in the side bar that links to a page of their choice. I’d like that page to be selected via wp_dropdown_pages.
I am good on the part of having users set the image url, height and width, but saving the target is where I’m stuck.
class detc_cta_widget extends WP_Widget {
// Constructor //
function detc_cta_widget() {
$widget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'detc_cta_widget', 'description' => 'Displays a Phone CTA' ); // Widget Settings
$control_ops = array( 'id_base' => 'detc_cta_widget' ); // Widget Control Settings
$this->WP_Widget( 'detc_cta_widget', 'DETC - CTA', $widget_ops, $control_ops ); // Create the widget
}
// Extract Args //
function widget($args, $instance) {
extract( $args );
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']); // the widget title
$img_source = $instance['img_source']; // CTA Image Source URL
$img_height = $instance['img_height']; // CTA Image Height
$img_width = $instance['img_width']; // CTA Image Width
$link_target = $instance['link_target']; // CTA Link Target
// Before widget //
echo $before_widget;
// Title of widget //
if ( $title ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; }
// Widget output //
?>
<div>
<a href="<?php echo $link_target ?>"><img src="<?php echo $img_source ?>" height="<?php echo $img_height ?>" width="<?php echo $img_width ?>"></a>
</div>
<?php
// After widget //
echo $after_widget;
}
// Update Settings //
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
$instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
$instance['img_source'] = strip_tags($new_instance['img_source']);
$instance['img_height'] = strip_tags($new_instance['img_height']);
$instance['img_width'] = strip_tags($new_instance['img_width']);
$instance['link_target'] = strip_tags($new_instance['link_target']);
return $instance;
}
// Widget Control Panel //
function form($instance) {
$defaults = array( 'title' => '','img_source' => 'wp-content/themes/corvius/images/cta_img.png','img_height' => '50','img_width' => '200','link_target' => 'cta.php');
$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, $defaults ); ?>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>">Title:</label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>'" type="text" value="<?php echo $instance['title']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('img_source'); ?>"><?php _e('CTA Image URL:'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('img_source'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('img_source'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $instance['img_source']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('img_height'); ?>"><?php _e('CTA Image Height:'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('img_height'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('img_height'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $instance['img_height']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('img_width'); ?>"><?php _e('CTA Image Width:'); ?></label>
<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('img_width'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('img_width'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $instance['img_width']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('link_target'); ?>"><?php _e('CTA Link Target:'); ?></label>
<?php wp_dropdown_pages(); ?>
</p>
<?php }
}
// End class detc_cta_widget
add_action('widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("detc_cta_widget");'));
?>
This is what the Widget Options Area looks like:
UPDATE:
@Simon
I’ve changed the Control Panel code to:
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('link_target'); ?>"><?php _e('CTA Link Target:'); ?></label>
<?php wp_dropdown_pages(array('id' => $this->get_field_id('link_target'),'name' => $this->get_field_name('link_target'))); ?>
</p>
But still no success in the selection being saved.
You need to give
wp_dropdown_pages
a proper name attribute (and id would be nice for yourlabel
element). This should do:I believe this code would work better.
wp_dropdown_pages(array(
'id' => $this->get_field_id('link_target'),
'name' => $this->get_field_name('link_target'),
'selected' => $link_target,
));