Widget IDs are not unique

Hi Alex,

Thanks for getting back. Not just yet, the website’s only in a development environment at the moment.

When you say that the widget ID is not used by the page builder that might be the problem. I need a unique ID in case I output more than one widget of the same type on the page. For consistency I had hoped to use the widget ID as this is what I would use in the sidebar (where I believe WordPress ensures widget IDs are unique).

If this isn’t possible perhaps you could recommend an alternative approach. I think there may be a SiteOrigin ID I can use so perhaps I could resort to this when not in a sidebar?

Thanks,

C

That makes sense. I’m outputting the ID myself for the sole purpose of seeing what it is (I’m using the latest version of page builder, 2.5.10).

Can you confirm how I would get hold of your ID in the instance of my widget so that I can use it in my JavaScript parameters? Also, is it possible to get this ID in a non-SiteOrigin widget (specifically, in the ‘widget’ function)?

Thanks Alex but I need this programmatically.

Here’s the scenario: I have a custom slideshow widget which I use in the top row of the page builder for a large slideshow and again in the bottom row for a thumbnail carousel. Each widget takes different parameters which is used, in part, by JavaScript output on the page to render each slideshow in the appropriate way. At the moment I’m working around it by generating a random number and using this as the ID for each widget but this isn’t ideal.

If I output the widget instance data for each slideshow I think I can see what I need:

[panels_info] => Array
        (
            [class] => slideshow_widget
            [grid] => 0
            [cell] => 0
            [id] => 0
            [widget_id] => 89b728c6-b07b-4cc1-bd0a-84c8ce90e105
            [cell_index] => 0
            [widget_index] => 0
        )

[panels_info] => Array
        (
            [class] => slideshow_widget
            [grid] => 5
            [cell] => 0
            [id] => 12
            [widget_id] => 74ca8f9e-26a3-4aeb-a987-aa626ae3a534
            [cell_index] => 0
            [widget_index] => 12
        )

It would seem the ‘id’ or ‘widget_id’ would be appropriate for my needs but I had hoped to use an ID that was consistent between sidebar widgets and page builder widgets to save the need to distinguish between the two.

What do you reckon?

Hi Alex,

I think it might be:

panel-PAGE_ID-GRID_ID-CELL_ID-CELL_INDEX

‘widget_index’ and ‘id’ of ‘panels_info’ don’t seem to be used.

At present I’m creating my own ID using the ‘id’ value from the ‘panels_info’ array as it would seem to be unique. If the array does not exist then the widget instance id will be used (which is appropriate in a sidebar).

$slideshow_id = $this->id;
        
if (array_key_exists('panels_info', $instance)){
    $slideshow_id = "pagebuilder-slideshow" . $instance['panels_info']['id'];
}

Thanks for all your help.