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Using WordPress Custom WidgetGo to the Appearance menu, and select Widgets. You should see a widget named Hostinger Sample Widget in the Available Widgets list. Next, drag the widget and drop it in the Sidebar section on the right side of the page. Save your changes and visit your website.
At appearance > widgets, drag it over to the sidebar section, move it around until the grey outlined box appears and then release the mouse button.
Insert Widget in Template File First, locate the file where you want your widget to appear. Second, you'll need the PHP class name of the widget you want to use. Here's a quick list of the default WordPress widget's class names: WP_Widget_Archives.
I need to display my custom made widget in WP page based custom page template programmatically.
This is the scenario:
I created page based on custom page template called "product" now I need in its sidebar display my custom made widget. I need this side bar to be totally different from other pages this is why I want to display it programmatically. I tried to use the_widget() function but I think it works only with built in widgets and also I don't know how to pass parameters registered with register_sidebar function to it, because it seems it doesn't use them by default.
Actually I used this : the_widget('WP_Widget_Search') to test it and widget was there but it ignored theme settings, I mean settings in function.php :
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div></div>',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3><div class="padder">'
) );
So as I said I don't know if it works with custom made widgets (created in plugins) because I don't know how to pass widget name there and params. How to do that?
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