Featured Author

A widget that allows the admin to select an author to feature.

class Author_Widget extends WP_Widget {

	public function __construct() {

		parent::__construct(
			'author--widget',
			__( 'Featured Author', 'kln' ),
			array(
				'description' => __( 'A widget that displays a featured author', 'kln' ),
				'classname'   => 'author--widget',
			)
		);

	}

	public function widget( $args, $instance ) {

	}

	public function form( $instance ) {

		// Set default values
		$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 
			'author--name' => '',
		) );

		// Retrieve an existing value from the database
		$author--name = !empty( $instance['author--name'] ) ? $instance['author--name'] : '';

		// Form fields
		echo '<p>';
		echo '	<label for="' . $this->get_field_id( 'author--name' ) . '" class="author--name_label">' . __( 'Author', 'kln' ) . '</label>';
		echo '	<select id="' . $this->get_field_id( 'author--name' ) . '" name="' . $this->get_field_name( 'author--name' ) . '" class="widefat">';
		echo '		<option value="id" ' . selected( $author--name, 'id', false ) . '> ' . __( 'Author Name', 'kln' ) . '</option>';
		echo '		<option value="id2" ' . selected( $author--name, 'id2', false ) . '> ' . __( 'Author Name 2', 'kln' ) . '</option>';
		echo '	</select>';
		echo '	<span class="description">' . __( 'Select an Author', 'kln' ) . '</span>';
		echo '</p>';

	}

	public function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {

		$instance = $old_instance;

		$instance['author--name'] = !empty( $new_instance['author--name'] ) ? strip_tags( $new_instance['author--name'] ) : '';

		return $instance;

	}

}

function register_widgets() {
	register_widget( 'Author_Widget' );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'register_widgets' );