Reply To: ACF Widgets not called/displayed on front-end in WordPress 5.9.3

• sagive

• October 28, 2022 at 5:01 am

This is an issue that drove my crazy twice. took me a second to remember,
the thing is that some type of widget structure is the problem

i have to change 2 things.

1. your right. we must return an array inside the update
2. we need to register the widget inside the __construct() (which is inside the class)

// construct inside the class

    public function __construct() {
        $widget_ops = array(
            'classname' => 'cmenu_widget',
            'description' => 'Custom menu widget built with ACF Pro',
        );
        parent::__construct( 'acf_cmenu_widget', 'ACF Custom Menu Widget', $widget_ops );

        add_action( 'widgets_init', function() {
            register_widget( 'AcfCMenuWIdget' );
        });
    }

and after that class just call it like so
$someClassVar = new someClassName();