Creating an empty/blank text widget for WordPress without additional markup and divs
WordPress provides a simple text widget that you can use on your blog to add some random HTML, Ads, images, and so on. But I have one problem and that is that it’s always adding some extra HTML like this.
<div class="widget"> <div class="textwidget"> </div> </div>
Sometimes you do not want this code if you for example want to add a widget to a ul and want the outer tag to be a li. I tried to Google for this but surprisingly I didn’t find a single “Super Empty Text Widget” so I created one myself.
/** * SuperEmptyWidget Class */ class SuperEmptyWidget extends WP_Widget { /** constructor */ function SuperEmptyWidget() { parent::WP_Widget(false, $name = 'SuperEmptyWidget'); } /** @see WP_Widget::widget */ function widget($args, $instance) { extract( $args ); $content = $instance['content']; echo $content; } /** @see WP_Widget::update */ function update($new_instance, $old_instance) { $instance = $old_instance; $instance['content'] = $new_instance['content']; return $instance; } /** @see WP_Widget::form */ function form($instance) { $content = esc_attr($instance['content']); ?> <p> <label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('content'); ?>"><?php _e('Content:'); ?></label> </p> <textarea class="widefat" cols="20" rows="16" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('content'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('content'); ?>"><?php echo $content; ?></textarea> <?php } } // class SuperEmptyWidget // register SuperEmptyWidget widget add_action('widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("SuperEmptyWidget");'));
Just add that to your functions.php and you should have a widget that does not add any crap either before or after the content.
