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Amjad Saeed answered on January 8, 2023 Popularity 5/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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Create a new class that extends WP_Widget.
Begin with __construct() to determine widget’s parameters.
Use widget() to define the appearance of the widget on the front-end.
Add form() to configure how the widget will look.
Don’t forget to add update() to refresh the widget every time you modify it.
Register the new WordPress custom widget using add_action() function.
Copy and paste the entire code to the bottom of functions.php file and click Update File.
Go to the Widgets menu and move the widget to the desired place.

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Creating a Basic WordPress Widget
WordPress comes with a built-in WordPress Widget class. Each new WordPress widget extends the WordPress widget class.

There are 18 methods mentioned in the WordPress developer’s handbook that can be used with the WP Widget class.

However, for the sake of this tutorial, we will be focusing on the following methods.

__construct() : This is the part where we create the widget ID, title, and description.
widget : This is where we define the output generated by the widget.
form : This part of the code is where we create the form with widget options for backend.
update: This is the part where we save widget options in the database.

Let’s study the following code where we have used these four methods inside the WP_Widget class.


// Creating the widget
class wpb_widget extends WP_Widget {
 
// The construct part
function __construct() {
 
}
 
// Creating widget front-end
public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
 
}
 
// Creating widget Backend
public function form( $instance ) {
 
}
 
// Updating widget replacing old instances with new
public function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
 
}
 
// Class wpb_widget ends here
}

The final piece of the code is where we will actually register the widget and load it inside WordPress.

function wpb_load_widget() {
    register_widget( 'wpb_widget' );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'wpb_load_widget' );

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-a-custom-wordpress-widget/

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