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Walkthrough for Week 2 Assignment

Nuno Morgadinho on Tue, 2011-02-15 19:38

Here is the link for the walkthrough:

As you can see there was some confusion (totally my fault!) about this assignment. Everyone ended up using a poll plugin when in fact the goal was to get people into the creation of a basic widget. If you're interested in that I hope the walkthrough is enough to get you started now :)

Aashvi Vyas

Tue, 2011-02-15 21:28

Nuno,
Thanks for detailed explanation for widget creation concept.
i also gone through following references
(1) http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/01/wordpress-widget-beginners-guide/

(2) http://www.lonewolfdesigns.co.uk/create-wordpress-widgets/

(3) http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creat...

all above reference us
"add_action" function with different 1st argument...like

add_action("plugins_loaded", "myHelloWorld_init");
or
add_action('widgets_init', array($this, 'init_myWidget'));

your walkthrough not use this function.
Nuno! please provide us
- In which case we need to use add_action function?
- What happen if we pass 1st argument as "plugins_loaded" or "widget_loaded"?

thanks

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Matej Rokos

Tue, 2011-02-15 23:15

These two hooks (plugins_loaded and widgets_init) are different as Plugins and Widgets are different. Historically, plugins were in Wordpress before Widgets. A plugin does not have to be a widget, but widget is always a plugin.
Read about it on http://notagrouch.com/technophile/wordpress/wordpress-plugins-widgets-di...

For creating widgets you may also use WP_Widget class wchich was introduced in Wordpress 2.8. I use WP_Widget in my submission.
Take look and download the source code: http://p2pu.marblenews.net/

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