Personnalize Widget Latest news

Hello !

I try to personnalize the widget latest-news ( I want to add a link, move title and image etc…)

I add the code below to a function.php of my child theme ( i saw it here : )

The new widget is correctly create but the change i made in function widget() doesn’t look to be applied

There is a better way to do that ?

Thx !

add_action('after_setup_theme','avia_load_additional_widget');
function avia_load_additional_widget()
{
	if (!class_exists('avia_customcptbox'))
	{
		class avia_customcptbox extends avia_newsbox
		{
			function avia_customcptbox()
			{
				$this->avia_term = '';
				$this->avia_post_type = '';
				$this->avia_new_query = ''; //set a custom query here
				$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'newsbox', 'description' => 'Derniere actualite' );

				$this->WP_Widget( 'customcptbox', THEMENAME.' actualite', $widget_ops );
			}
		}
		
		function widget($args, $instance)
		{

			global $avia_config;

			extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
			echo $before_widget;

			$title = empty($instance['title']) ? '' : apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
			$count = empty($instance['count']) ? '' : $instance['count'];
			$cat = empty($instance['cat']) ? '' : $instance['cat'];
			$excerpt = empty($instance['excerpt']) ? '' : $instance['excerpt'];
			$image_size = "square";

			if ( !empty( $title ) ) { echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; };

			if(empty($this->avia_term))
			{
				$additional_loop = new WP_Query("cat=".$cat."&posts_per_page=".$count);
			}
			else
			{
				$catarray = explode(',', $cat);

				if(empty($catarray[0]))
				{
					$new_query = array("posts_per_page"=>$count,"post_type"=>$this->avia_post_type);
				}
				else
				{
					if($this->avia_new_query)
					{
						$new_query = $this->avia_new_query;
					}
					else
					{
						$new_query = array(	"posts_per_page"=>$count, 'tax_query' => array(
														array( 'taxonomy' => $this->avia_term,
															   'field' => 'id',
															   'terms' => explode(',', $cat),
															   'operator' => 'IN')
															  )
														);
					}
				}

				$additional_loop = new WP_Query($new_query);
			}

			if($additional_loop->have_posts()) :

			echo '<ul class="news-wrap image_size_'.$image_size.'">';
			while ($additional_loop->have_posts()) : $additional_loop->the_post();

			$format = "";
			if(empty($this->avia_post_type)) 	$format = $this->avia_post_type;
			if(empty($format)) 					$format = get_post_format();
	     	if(empty($format)) 					$format = 'standard';
			
			$the_id = get_the_ID();
			$link = get_post_meta( $the_id  ,'_portfolio_custom_link', true) != "" ? get_post_meta( $the_id ,'_portfolio_custom_link_url', true) : get_permalink();
			
			
			echo '<li class="news-content post-format-'.$format.'">';

			//check for preview images:
			$image = "";

			if(!current_theme_supports('force-post-thumbnails-in-widget'))
			{
				$slides = avia_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'slideshow', true);

				if( $slides != "" && !empty( $slides[0]['slideshow_image'] ) )
				{
					$image = avia_image_by_id($slides[0]['slideshow_image'], $image_size, 'image');
				}
			}

			if(current_theme_supports( 'post-thumbnails' ) && !$image )
			{
				$image = get_the_post_thumbnail( $the_id, $image_size );
			}

			$time_format = apply_filters( 'avia_widget_time', get_option('date_format')." - ".get_option('time_format'), 'avia_newsbox' );

			echo "<a class='news-link' title='".get_the_title()."' href='".$link."'>";

			$nothumb = (!$image) ? 'no-news-thumb' : '';

			echo "<span class='news-thumb $nothumb'>";
			echo $image;
			echo "</span>";
			if(empty($avia_config['widget_image_size']) || 'display title and excerpt' != $excerpt)
			{
				echo "<strong class='news-headline'>".get_the_title();
				
				if($time_format)
				{
					echo "<span class='news-time'>".get_the_time($time_format)."</span>";	
				}
				
				echo "</strong>";
			}
			echo "</a>";

			if('display title and excerpt' == $excerpt)
			{
				echo "<div class='news-excerpt'>";

				if(!empty($avia_config['widget_image_size']))
				{
					echo "<a class='news-link-inner' title='".get_the_title()."' href='".$link."'>";
					echo "<strong class='news-headline'>".get_the_title()."</strong>";
					echo "</a>";
					if($time_format)
					{
						echo "<span class='news-time'>".get_the_time($time_format)."</span>";	
					}

				}
				the_excerpt();
				echo "</div>";
			}

			echo '</li>';

			endwhile;
			echo "</ul>";
			wp_reset_postdata();
			endif;

			echo $after_widget;

		}

		register_widget( 'avia_customcptbox' );
	}
}