'smartline_category_posts_boxed', 'description' => __('Display latest posts from category in boxed layout. Please use this widget ONLY on Frontpage Magazine widget area.', 'smartline-lite') ); $this->WP_Widget('smartline_category_posts_boxed', __('Category Posts Boxed (Smartline)', 'smartline-lite'), $widget_ops); // Delete Widget Cache on certain actions add_action( 'save_post', array( $this, 'delete_widget_cache' ) ); add_action( 'deleted_post', array( $this, 'delete_widget_cache' ) ); add_action( 'switch_theme', array( $this, 'delete_widget_cache' ) ); } public function delete_widget_cache() { wp_cache_delete('widget_smartline_category_posts_boxed', 'widget'); } private function default_settings() { $defaults = array( 'title' => '', 'category' => 0, 'category_link' => false ); return $defaults; } // Display Widget function widget($args, $instance) { $cache = array(); // Get Widget Object Cache if ( ! $this->is_preview() ) { $cache = wp_cache_get( 'widget_smartline_category_posts_boxed', 'widget' ); } if ( ! is_array( $cache ) ) { $cache = array(); } // Display Widget from Cache if exists if ( isset( $cache[ $this->id ] ) ) { echo $cache[ $this->id ]; return; } // Start Output Buffering ob_start(); // Extract Sidebar Arguments extract($args); // Get Widget Settings $defaults = $this->default_settings(); extract( wp_parse_args( $instance, $defaults ) ); // Output echo $before_widget; ?>
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is_preview() ) { $cache[ $this->id ] = ob_get_flush(); wp_cache_set( 'widget_smartline_category_posts_boxed', $cache, 'widget' ); } else { ob_end_flush(); } } // Render Widget Content function render($instance) { // Get Widget Settings $defaults = $this->default_settings(); extract( wp_parse_args( $instance, $defaults ) ); // Get latest posts from database $query_arguments = array( 'posts_per_page' => 4, 'ignore_sticky_posts' => true, 'cat' => (int)$category ); $posts_query = new WP_Query($query_arguments); $i = 0; // Check if there are posts if( $posts_query->have_posts() ) : // Limit the number of words for the excerpt add_filter('excerpt_length', 'smartline_frontpage_category_excerpt_length'); // Display Posts while( $posts_query->have_posts() ) : $posts_query->the_post(); if(isset($i) and $i == 0) : ?>
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', esc_url( get_permalink() ), esc_attr( get_the_time() ), esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ), esc_html( get_the_date() ) ); ?> default_settings(); extract( wp_parse_args( $instance, $defaults ) ); // Add Widget Title Filter $widget_title = apply_filters('widget_title', $title, $instance, $this->id_base); if( !empty( $widget_title ) ) : echo $before_title; // Link Category Title if( $category_link == true ) : // Check if "All Categories" is selected if( $category == 0 ) : $link_title = __('View all posts', 'smartline-lite'); // Set Link URL to always point to latest posts page if ( get_option( 'show_on_front' ) == 'page' ) : $link_url = esc_url( get_permalink( get_option('page_for_posts' ) ) ); else : $link_url = esc_url( home_url('/') ); endif; else : // Set Link URL and Title for Category $link_title = sprintf( __('View all posts from category %s', 'smartline-lite'), get_cat_name( $category ) ); $link_url = esc_url( get_category_link( $category ) ); endif; // Display linked Widget Title echo ''. $widget_title . ''; echo ''; else: echo $widget_title; endif; echo $after_title; endif; } function update($new_instance, $old_instance) { $instance = $old_instance; $instance['title'] = sanitize_text_field($new_instance['title']); $instance['category'] = (int)$new_instance['category']; $instance['category_link'] = !empty($new_instance['category_link']); $this->delete_widget_cache(); return $instance; } function form( $instance ) { // Get Widget Settings $defaults = $this->default_settings(); extract( wp_parse_args( $instance, $defaults ) ); ?>


__('All Categories', 'smartline-lite'), 'show_count' => true, 'hide_empty' => false, 'selected' => $category, 'name' => $this->get_field_name('category'), 'id' => $this->get_field_id('category') ); wp_dropdown_categories( $args ); ?>