Comments on: Tutorial: WordPress 2.8 Widget API

By: Paul Novitski

Paul Novitski — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:11:10 +0000

No, Eric was correct, the for attribute value is the id of the input field, not its name.

HTML 4.01 Specification
17.9.1 The LABEL element

for = idref [CS]
This attribute explicitly associates the label being defined with another control. When present, the value of this attribute must be the same as the value of the id attribute of some other control in the same document.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:27:01 +0000

This is super helpful! The first tutorial that I have found that doesn’t assume I’m a programming pro. Thanks a lot.

By: Greg Morris

Greg Morris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:56:54 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you.

I found other tutorials for this and they were no where near as clear as yours. They said things like “The code should be self explanatory”. If that were the case I would’ve just gone to the codex!

I made a plugin for DART for publishers ad tags and turned template tags into widgets with this guide.

Thanks!

By: Line In

Line In — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:48:01 +0000

If you do a search, there are plenty of tutorials on how to widgetise areas other than the sideabar.

I’m not sure about using short codes, though. That would probably require some work.

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Home Based MLM — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:26:43 +0000

Awesome tutorial. Perfect for those of us who just upgraded to 2.8

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Buyer Keywords Generator — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:58:27 +0000

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By: Simon Fairbairn

Simon Fairbairn — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:00:57 +0000

Just wanted to join in with the general chorus of appreciation for providing this tutorial.

Thanks very much!