Output subtitles in Recent Posts widget

[jdahdah]

Subtitles are currently not displayed in the default Recent Posts widget. Is there a way to do this in my theme's functions.php?

[philiparthurmoore]

You could try something like the following but you may end up seeing subtitles in places that you don't want them to show up:

/**
 * Display subtitles in recent posts widget.
 */
function theme_slug_subtitle_view_supported() {
    return true;
}
add_filter( 'subtitle_view_supported', 'theme_slug_subtitle_view_supported' );

The issue is that the plugin relies on filtering the_title but only within The Loop. What the above code does is just return the post subtitle for every post title that's shown on a page, no matter where it's displayed.

[jdahdah]

Thanks for responding so quickly! You're right, it works, but it does appear in places it shouldn't, like in the document <title> tag. I've gone with what is probably the least elegant solution: copied the whole WP_Widget_Recent_Posts class into my theme, registered it as a new widget and modified it to include the subtitle.

[philiparthurmoore]

Sounds good. That sounds like a pain, though, but I just don't see any other way around it. I'll update this ticket in the future if I run into any elegant solutions that you may be able to use. Cheers.

[jdahdah]

Alright, thanks for your help!