Is There A Hook To Process The Content Of The Text Widget?

Is there any filter which can be used in a plugin to process the content of the text widget before it is rendered?

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Method 1

Filter

Example

Reference

Method 2

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Method 1

Filter

widget_text (for the text)
widget_title (for the title)

Example

function add_smiley($content) {
$new_content = '';
$new_content.= $content . ':)';
return $new_content;
}   
add_filter('widget_text', 'add_smiley');

Note that this works only for the content so not if you have a widget with only a title.

Reference

Method 2

You should be able to run a filter on widget_text. The text widget is the only one that calls the widget_text hook.

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.0.1/wp-includes/default-widgets.php

Line 380 ..

$text = apply_filters( 'widget_text', $instance['text'], $instance );

So in short, Yes! Would be the direct answer to your question. Hope that helps… 🙂

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