Question

I need to remove the surrounding li from a widget that is pulled in with wordpress eg:

<li id="dp-twitter-widget-2" class="widget-container widget-twitter">

That is the one I need to remove, however it must be server side as javascript manipulates it once it is served, so i would imagine a preg_replace with PHP but I cannot intercept it.

Answer 1

test it

 $strwithoutli=preg_replace_callback("~<li(.*)>(.*)</li>~si",function($m){print_r($m);return $m[2];}," ".$str." ");

for old php version

function replace($m){
print_r($m);
return $m[2];
}
$strwithoutli=preg_replace_callback("~<li(.*)>(.*)</li>~si","replace"," ".$str." ");

in wordpress widget you didn’t need to do this work. you can make change on widget class this is link of class between line 546-555 you can see widget output structure with make change on this you can remove li from output

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-includes/widgets.php#L0