Making my own plug-in

See this in the plugin in step 4?

function widget( $args, $instance ) {
    extract($args);
    echo $before_widget;
 
    echo '<h2 class="widget-title">Ottopress Widget</h2>';
    echo "<div>Here's my custom stuff.</div>";
     
    echo $after_widget;
}

See the two “echo” lines in the middle that are set apart from the rest?

That is the bit of code that echo’s out something. Replace that with the code from your widget.

Thank you for the answer, however I’m still not quite sure which of the code I should use. Is it the only part, to use? This is the code between the lines of echo $before_widget; and echo after_widget;. In the custom html widget I still can’t use the <?php ?> tags. Sorry for all the questions, but I’m still new to this.

if ( !empty( $title ) ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; }
			ob_start();
			eval('?>'.$text);
			$text = ob_get_contents();
			ob_end_clean();
			?>
			<div class="execphpwidget"><?php echo $instance['filter'] ? wpautop($text) : $text; ?></div>
		<?php

EDIT: Figured out how to use the php tags (<php> and </php>, but the widget reads it like normal text). Can you help with this?

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Jonas Bj?rn Pedersen.

No, that’s the code from the PHP Code Widget plugin. That’s not what I meant at all. You don’t want that code for anything.

The PHP Code Widget lets you put a widget on the page, and then type your custom PHP Code into it.

The goal here is to *not have the PHP Code Widget anymore*. Instead, you’re making a custom plugin to run your custom code. You know, that stuff that you had previously been putting into the widget area.

That’s the custom code that you’re going to put into your custom plugin.

Oh I misread your first response.

So say that I have the following code in the widget:

<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> - &copy;
<?php echo date('Y'); ?>

Is this the code to put in the plugin?

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Jonas Bj?rn Pedersen.