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WordPress How to Build a WordPress Plugin Building WordPress Widgets, and Shortcodes WordPress Widgets Code Challenges

Bartosz Kubisz
Bartosz Kubisz
26,277 Points
Posted by Bartosz Kubisz
Bartosz Kubisz
26,277 Points

How to Build a Wordpress Plugin. Challenge Task 4 of 6

Question: Inside of the widget function, below the extract function, apply the widget_title filter to get the title of the instance. Assign it to a variable named title.

My code

<?php

    class My_Plugin_Widget extends WP_Widget {

        function my_plugin_widget() {
            parent::__construct( false, 'My Plugin Widget' );
        }

    function widget( $args, $instance ) {
        // Widget output
        extract( $args );
        $title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance['title'] );

    }

    function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
        // Save widget options
    $instance = $old_instance;
        $instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);

        return $instance;
    }

    function form( $instance ) {
        // Output admin widget options form
        $title = esc_attr( $instance['title'] );

        require( 'inc/widget-fields.php' );
    }
    }
?>

Prompt Bummer! The first thing inside the widget method, use the extract function to make $args into local variables.

What Iā€™m doing wrong?

plugin.php 
<?php

    class My_Plugin_Widget extends WP_Widget {

        function my_plugin_widget() {
            parent::__construct( false, 'My Plugin Widget' );
        }

    function widget( $args, $instance ) {
        // Widget output
        extract( $args );
        $title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance['title'] );

    }

    function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
        // Save widget options
    $instance = $old_instance;
        $instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);

        return $instance;
    }

    function form( $instance ) {
        // Output admin widget options form
        $title = esc_attr( $instance['title'] );

        require( 'inc/widget-fields.php' );
    }

    }



?>
Michelle Martinez
Michelle Martinez
4,263 Points
Michelle Martinez
Michelle Martinez
4,263 Points

removing the comment... great

Henrik Hansen
Henrik Hansen
23,176 Points
Henrik Hansen
Henrik Hansen
23,176 Points

Omg, that was just so annoying! Thank you Michelle! You should add that as an answer.