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March 31, 2023 at 1:28 pm #1403116

cambium.digital
Participant

Hi,
I am looking for a solution to make small changes to the news widget and show a category instead of the time, while using a child theme.
Previous solutions, where the code from the widget could be copied into the child-themes functions.php, produce an error.
Any tipps on how to resolve that?

Best regrads,
rawcat

April 2, 2023 at 12:49 pm #1403270
Mike
Moderator
Hey cambium.digital,
Thank you for your patience, the file to edit to add the categories to the Latest News widget is:
/wp-content/themes/enfold/framework/php/widgets/widget-classes/class-avia-newsbox.php
on line 219 (v5.5) look for:
echo '' . get_the_title();
below this add:
```
echo ' ';
$cats = get_the_category();
foreach ( $cats as $cat ) {
echo ''.$cat->cat_name.' ';
}
```
If you don’t want the date to show place two slashes before the line echo '' . get_the_time( $time_format ) . ''; like this: //echo '' . get_the_time( $time_format ) . '';
Typically files in the /framework/ directory can not be added to a child theme and copying the function directly to the child theme functions.php was not successful.

Best regards,
Mike
April 3, 2023 at 12:35 pm #1403383

cambium.digital
Participant

Hi Mike,

thanks for the reply. Is there a way to make these changes update-proof?

Best
rawcat

April 3, 2023 at 4:49 pm #1403424
Guenni007
Participant
There is probably a way to do it via child theme, – but because of the dependency of Portfoliobox to Newsbox it is a bit too complicated to give it out quickly. I’ll stay tuned!
…
- This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Guenni007.
April 3, 2023 at 6:04 pm #1403434
Guenni007
Participant
btw: to set a different source image for the newsbox / portfoliobox you can add that snippet to child-theme functions.php:
( you have to look what index your widgets get )
```
function my_avf_newsbox_image_size( $image_size, array $args, array $instance ){
 if( $args['widget_id'] == ( 'portfoliobox-3' || 'newsbox-2' || 'newsbox-4' ) ){
 $image_size = 'square';
 }
 return $image_size;
}
add_filter( 'avf_newsbox_image_size', 'my_avf_newsbox_image_size', 10, 3 );
```
now for the example above you can now enlarge the thumbnail via quick css:
```
.news-thumb,
.news-thumb img {
 width: 100px;
 height: 100px;
}
```
see: https://enfold.webers-webdesign.de/impressum/ at the footer widgets
April 4, 2023 at 9:14 am #1403488

Guenni007
Participant

@Mike – please generate a Portfolio-Widget – what do you see there ?

April 4, 2023 at 12:28 pm #1403507
Günter
Keymaster
Hi,

See file :
https://github.com/KriesiMedia/enfold-library/blob/master/actions%20and%20filters/Widgets/avf_widget_loader_widget_classes.php

At the bottom you have the code to paste into function.php of your child theme:
```
/*
 * Snippet to replace Newsbox widget with your custom Newsbox widget
 *
 * @since 5.5
 */

function custom_avf_widget_loader_widget_classes_newsbox( array $default_widgets )
{
	$namespace = '\\aviaFramework\widgets\\';

	// Create a folder widgets in enfold-child: enfold-child/widgets
	$path = trailingslashit( get_stylesheet_directory() ) . 'widgets/';


	// Replace link to original file with your child theme modified newsbox widget
	$default_widgets['newsbox'] = array(
												'class'	=> $namespace . 'avia_newsbox',
												'file'	=> $path . 'class-avia-newsbox.php'
											);

	
	return $default_widgets;
}

add_filter( 'avf_widget_loader_widget_classes', 'custom_avf_widget_loader_widget_classes_newsbox', 10, 1 );
```
This is a modified newsbox widget with the categories:

https://github.com/KriesiMedia/enfold-library/blob/master/customizations/widgets/class-avia-newsbox.php

Put this file in folder enfold-child/widgets.

It will replace the original newsbox.

If you need help please provide ftp access and we can do it for you.

Best regards,
Günter
April 4, 2023 at 12:36 pm #1403509
Guenni007
Participant
yes – perfect – not as amateurish as my approach ;)
I would not have come up with get_the_terms.

Thanks alot!
- This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Guenni007.
April 4, 2023 at 12:41 pm #1403510

cambium.digital
Participant

Awesome, thanks a lot. I will give this a try!

April 4, 2023 at 1:41 pm #1403517
Günter
Keymaster
Hi,

I uploaded an optimized version:

https://github.com/KriesiMedia/enfold-library/blob/master/customizations/widgets/class-avia-newsbox.php

If you replace line 64:
```
$this->use_blog_meta_settings = false;
```
with
```
$this->use_blog_meta_settings = true;
```
then theme options blog layout settings are used to show/hide categories and time

Best regards,
Günter
April 4, 2023 at 3:28 pm #1403529

Guenni007
Participant

wow

April 6, 2023 at 4:41 pm #1403730

Günter
Keymaster

Hi,

Next release will have improved settings for some widgets in core.
See https://kriesi.at/support/topic/enfold-upcoming-fixes/

Best regards,
Günter

April 6, 2023 at 4:43 pm #1403731

cambium.digital
Participant

Awesome! Thank you so much.

PS: This can be closed

April 6, 2023 at 8:58 pm #1403747

Guenni007
Participant

Great !
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