WordPress: allows you to insert a widget into any content area using a shortcode
<?php | |
/** | |
* Widget Shortcode | |
* - allows you to insert a widget into any content area using a shortcode | |
* - credit: http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/11/inserting-widgets-with-shortcodes/ | |
* - read the comments on the Smashing Magazine article for pros and cons of this function | |
*/ | |
add_shortcode( 'mcw_widget', function ( $atts ) { | |
// configure defaults and extract the attributes into variables | |
extract( shortcode_atts( | |
array( | |
'type' => '', | |
'title' => '', | |
'show_title' => false, | |
'count' => 0, | |
'image' => false, | |
), | |
$atts | |
)); | |
$args = array( | |
'before_widget' => '<div class="box widget">', | |
'after_widget' => '</div>', | |
'before_title' => '<div class="widget-title">', | |
'after_title' => '</div>', | |
); | |
ob_start(); | |
the_widget( $type, $atts, $args ); | |
$output = ob_get_clean(); | |
return $output; | |
}); |
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