NX WP Theme

Social Follow Widget

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About the widget

The Social Follow Widget can be used anywhere in the website, in order to add the social networks to follow. Common uses are in the header and footer of the website

It contains the following ways of sharing

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Twitch
  • Spotify
  • Telegram
  • Viber
  • Vimeo
  • Google News
  • RSS

Enable Widget

In order for the Social Follow Widget widget to appear in the Widgets list  (Appearance -> Widgets) we need to enable it.

Widget Override

If you need to override the widget in the child theme, you must inherit the parent widget of the parent theme. Inside your child theme folder (usually in wp-content/themes/nx-theme-child), create a relevant folder structure as the parent theme wp-content/themes/nx-theme-child/widgets. Create a php file that inherits the parent widget as follows

class Social_Follow_Widget_Child extends Social_Follow_Widget
{
 ... widget stuff
}

Next step is to replace the parent widget and yo can do so as follows

function replace_parent_widget() {

    if ( class_exists('News_Feed_Widget') ) {
        unregister_widget('News_Feed_Widget');
        require_once get_theme_file_path('/widgets/News_Feed_Widget_Child.php');
        register_widget('News_Feed_Widget_Child');
    }

    if ( class_exists('Social_Follow_Widget') ) {
        unregister_widget('social_follow_widget');
        require_once get_theme_file_path('/widgets/Social_Follow_Widget_Child.php');
        register_widget('Social_Follow_Widget_Child');
    }
}

add_action('widgets_init', 'replace_parent_widget', 15);