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WordPress How to Build a WordPress Theme Extending WordPress Template Functionality Adding Widgets to Our Footer

Posted by Derek Snow
Derek Snow
Courses Plus Student 1,827 Points

before_title/after_title not being applied

When I add the widgets, the before_title/after_title key => value pairs specified in the array for create_widget is not being applied or is being overridden. Edit: This only occurs on the Dribble Plugin. I did not test the twitter one, but the Treehouse Badges Plugin has the correct h5 tags applied. Here's the relevant code from functions.php

function create_widget($name, $id, $description) {

  register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => __( $name ),   
    'id' => $id, 
    'description' => __( $description ),
    'before_widget' => ' ',
    'after_widget' => ' ',
    'before_title' => '<h5>',
    'after_title' => '</h5>'
  ));

}

create_widget("Left Footer", "footer_left", "Displays in the left of the footer");
create_widget("Middle Footer", "footer_middle", "Displays in the middle of the footer");
create_widget("Right Footer", "footer_right", "Displays in the right of the footer");

The widget is being displayed, but the title has h3 instead of the expected h5 tags.

I assume I may be missing something simple, but haven't been able to find a solution. Any tips on what I should check/do to resolve this problem?

1 Answer

Cameron Bourquein
Cameron Bourquein
4,927 Points
Cameron Bourquein
Cameron Bourquein
4,927 Points

This is happening to me too. It appears the Dribble Widget has a new field of "title" relative to when this tutorial was recorded, which is overriding the h5 tags with its own h3. The only way I was able to alter this was to Go to the Dashboard -> Plugins -> WP Dribbble (Edit) and change this bit of code in the plug-in itself: 

<!-- Custom Dribbble Widget Title -->
<h3><?php if(!empty($widgetTitle)) : echo $widgetTitle; else : echo 'Dribbbles'; endif; ?></h3>

Such that the h3 tags are h5 tags. Still have some other restyling to do, but it did fix the heading problem. I don't know what the best practice would be for fixing something like this as I am still quite new to WP, php, etc., but this is what worked for me.