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How to override existing field?

By Sukanta Paul, 7 years ago. Last reply by Alex S, 7 years ago.
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First, many many thanks for developing the plugin.

I want to make a custom field for the existing field type “color”, the default from Siteorigin widget bundle. Basically, what I need to create my own UI and backend logic for the color field type. As this field is used in many places, if I could override the field type directly, will automatically work in every place.

Can you please point some actions or filters so that, I can de-register and re-register with the same type “color”? Or if any other workaround. Please help!

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  1. 7 years, 1 month ago Sukanta Paul

    Hello, please anybody here to help?

  2. 7 years, 1 month ago Alex S
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Sukanta,

    According to the development team, this is theoretically possible but it may not be very reliable as this functionality was never specifically designed for. As such, I would recommend creating a new form field and overriding the widgets where needed – this isn’t really ideal and for that, I’m sorry.

    Regardless, to do this you’ll need to define your form field in both the siteorigin_widgets_field_class_prefixes filter and siteorigin_widgets_field_class_paths.

  3. 7 years, 1 month ago Sukanta Paul

    Thank you for replying. I know what you mean, I’ve already looked into the source code and did some research. Already tried to do that. But you know what:

    $form_options = apply_filters( 'siteorigin_widgets_form_options', $form_options, $this );
$form_options = apply_filters( 'siteorigin_widgets_form_options_' . $this->id_base, $form_options, $this );

    These filters don’t work as expected. Check out my question at StackOverflow. For now, I believe the accepted answer there is the only workaround to achieve this. I’ve also explained why someone needs to override field type (I needed too for my own application).

    I believe this is a serious bug in your application. Please try to fix it on your next release maybe.

  4. 7 years, 1 month ago Alex S
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Sukanta,

    I’ve logged this here: https://github.com/siteorigin/so-widgets-bundle/issues/711

    If you’re up for it, consider submitting a Pull Request with the desired fix/changes.

    We can’t provide any sort of ETA on when this will be fixed but I can state it’s unlikely to be in the next update due to the release window we currently have in mind and this issue doesn’t affect the average user – sorry mate.

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