How to check if widget is placed in sidebar or footer?

Hi, I am creating some custom widgets and I would like to check inside the widget is it placed in the footer or sidebar, any idea how to do this?. The heading looks different for footer and sidebar…

mpc said
Hi, I am creating some custom widgets and I would like to check inside the widget is it placed in the footer or sidebar, any idea how to do this?. The heading looks different for footer and sidebar…

Using ? javascript ? css ?

It’s easy task for both cases, you simply do a child search for ”.widget” inside your footer or sidebar elements.

Haven’t tested, but perhaps this would work?

proxdeveloper said

mpc said
Hi, I am creating some custom widgets and I would like to check inside the widget is it placed in the footer or sidebar, any idea how to do this?. The heading looks different for footer and sidebar…

Using ? javascript ? css ?

It’s easy task for both cases, you simply do a child search for ”.widget” inside your footer or sidebar elements.

PHP

digitalimpact said
Haven’t tested, but perhaps this would work?

Your link doesn’t work…

mpc said

proxdeveloper said

mpc said
Hi, I am creating some custom widgets and I would like to check inside the widget is it placed in the footer or sidebar, any idea how to do this?. The heading looks different for footer and sidebar…

Using ? javascript ? css ?

It’s easy task for both cases, you simply do a child search for ”.widget” inside your footer or sidebar elements.

PHP

You should do that by CSS as proxdeveloper said

Parker

if ( is_active_sidebar(footer-sidebar) ) {
    // Display footer sidebar
} else {
    // Display none
};

Ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_sidebar & http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-content/themes/twentyten/sidebar-footer.php

Ivor said

if ( is_active_sidebar(footer-sidebar) ) {
    // Display footer sidebar
} else {
    // Display none
};

Ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_sidebar & http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-content/themes/twentyten/sidebar-footer.php

I think he needs to achieve something different. As I understand he want to check if a specific widget is displayed in specific widgetized area. I needed something like that for the case below:

I’m using [embed] shortcode in a custom video widget, and sidebar width was 200px but the footer widgets column’s width was 230px so I wanted to return [embed width="200"]video url[/embed] if it’s displayed in the sidebar but return [embed width="230"]video url[/embed] if it’s displayed in the footer.

i didn’t find a PHP solution, and used the javascript way.

mbc said
The heading looks different for footer and sidebar…

If you mean the styling of the heading, so you need to go CSS , for example…

#footer .widget-class .heading-class { /* footer heading style */ }

#sidebar .widget-class .heading-class  { /* sidebar heading style */ }

Anybody have PHP solution for my case would be appreciated

Haven’t tested this but…

$widget_id = 'your_unique_widget_id';
$sidebar_id = 'my_sidebar_id'

$sidebar_widgets = get_option('sidebars_widgets');
foreach ($sidebar_widgets[$sidebar_id] as $widget)
    if (strpos($widget, $widget_id) !== false)
        $success = true;
if ($success !== true) {
//whatever
}

via WordPress.org

I really think you should find another solution other than PHP for this.