MP:Mediaprojekte

WordPress Widgets Hack: Show Title on Widget

Having a lot of RSS/Text or King Widgets brings up a Problem in the Admin Interface.

You have to klick on each Widget to see whats in there.

The Solution is to show the title of each Widget (if it has one) next to the widget name in the drag drop view. 

Code

I made a little change to the widget.php (the original widget plugin v.1.0).

Open widget.php and go to Line 607 -> in function widget_draggable($name)

Original Line 607
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echo "<li class=’module’ id=’widgetprefix-$san_name’><span class=’handle’>$name$popper</span></li>"; 

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Replace the Line 607 with this:
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// start widget title enhancements by georg leciejewski
    if(!empty($registered_widgets[$name]['params'])){
        $number = $registered_widgets[$name]['params'][0];
        $options =get_option($registered_widgets[$name]['classname']);
        $widgettitle=$options[$number]['title'] ;
    }else{
        $options =get_option($registered_widgets[$name]['classname']);
        $widgettitle=$options['title'] ;
    }
    //show only if title is populated
    if(!empty($widgettitle)){
        $show_title= ‘<small>( ‘.$widgettitle.’ )</small>’;
    }
// end widget title enhancements by georg leciejewski
    echo "<li class=’module’ id=’widgetprefix-$san_name’><span class=’handle’>$name $show_title  $popper</span></li>";

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Now the Widget Title guides you the way through your widget jungle.