Text Widget with Class

A text widget based on the default WordPress text widget. Allows users to add custom classes to the widget container and the title tag.

It takes this:

And allows you to do this:

It also allows users to add custom classes to the widget container.

NEW
If the sidebar registration in your theme’s function file does not contain any HTML for before or after the title of the widget, this now will now fill that with an

tag set.

General Information

This plugin is absolutely free to use. I made it for a specific personal purpose and decided to share with everyone else. I will try and update this for the future but can’t guarantee.

1a. Upload text-widget-with-class folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

1b. Or use the plugin uploader through WordPress

1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

2. Add widget to your sidebars.

Is this plugin awesome?

Yes it is.

Updates?

Planning on making a version that doesn’t require certain classes to be present to use.

1.0 First release
1.1 8.26.2014 Added field to add classes to the widget container
1.2 3.1.15 Addressed issue if theme function file widget initilization doesn’t contain before or after title tags
1.2.1 3.4.15 Addressed issue if only header tags were present without classes