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The new WordPress widget for showing the latest threads in a wide view is now included in XenWord 3.3. The widget is live on the front landing page of the website.
Even though this widget was built a few days ago, I changed the coding today to respect the User permissions. If a forum is hidden...
A widget for showing the latest blog entry was added to XenWord 3.3 and is live on this site. This is the first row of the main loading page on the WordPress side. The CSS is not included in the xenword-public.css file and is very easy to add in the customizer CSS available in WordPress 4.7...
The featured thread and forum widgets have been reworked. The select dropdown is populated with information pulled from a model rather than from a direct query to the database. The parsing of the featured thread has also been changed.
Several div tags were added so that the overall look of the...
The XenWord Settings Panel, Dashboard widget, and Board Totals widget now match in sequence and options. Links to the add-ons are now included in the init.php file for the Settings Panel.
These options mainly turn on the board totals and dashboard community statistics widgets. Plans are still...
It's been quite some time since looking at widgets. Before opening PhpStorm, I was thinking this might be an opportunity to use Views. After opening PhpStorm and reading about WP_Widget::form on the developer documentation site, I quickly saw the return 'noform' was missing in the majority of...
I posted code in the first entry for this series that allowed you to test and read XenForo code. I called the file connectXenForo.php. If you haven't read the first entry for this series then please do so now and return after you have set up your local environment.
Today we'll look at the...
Information in this post is packed with PHP terms. Ask in the comments if you are unclear about a term or something that is written.
Sometimes I stick a var_dump into a section of the XenWord code, click on a local test site, and look for the returned values. There is an easier way to handle...
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