Genesis Featured Posts Widget

[mikelbylParticipant]

I have transitioned a bunch of sites I manage back to the built-in Genesis Featured Posts widget (from an alternative that was not developed and has broken), and in this transition I have noticed that many of the texts in the widgets are not coded in such a way that WPML picks them as string translations. This was kind of surprising, because Genesis otherwise works so brilliantly with WPML, but whatever.

So in order to use the widgets, I had to go in to the plugins in Genesis and edit the pieces that needed to be translatable strings. Of course this is not ideal, because a Genesis update could blow away my edits.

So my real question is how do I implement these code changes in a functions.php file or in some other non-destructable manner?

Code from /genesis/lib/widgets/featured-post-widget.php:

Original:

if ( ! empty( $instance['more_from_category'] ) && ! empty( $instance['posts_cat'] ) ) {
	printf(
		'<p class="more-from-category"><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></p>',
		esc_url( get_category_link( $instance['posts_cat'] ) ),
		esc_attr( get_cat_name( $instance['posts_cat'] ) ),
		esc_html( $instance['more_from_category_text'] )
	);
}

Modified:

if ( ! empty( $instance['more_from_category'] ) && ! empty( $instance['posts_cat'] ) ) {
	printf(
		'<p class="more-from-category"><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></p>',
		esc_url( get_category_link( $instance['posts_cat'] ) ),
		esc_attr( get_cat_name( $instance['posts_cat'] ) ),
		esc_html( __($instance['more_from_category_text']) )
	);
}

And

Original:

echo $args['before_title'] . '<span class="more-posts-title">' . esc_html( $instance['extra_title'] ) . '</span>' . $args['after_title'];

Modified:
echo _e( $args['before_title'] . '<span class="more-posts-title">' . esc_html( $instance['extra_title'] ) . '</span>' . $args['after_title']);

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[braddaltonParticipant]

You can copy over the widget to your child theme.

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[harrygreenParticipant]

So, that what I've read here is wrong?

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