Comments on: WordPress, GPL and Widget Context

By: Jay Carlson

Jay Carlson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Jeffro2pt0,

I’m getting the same thing. with multiple text widgets, it just shows them all…

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Rob, that is a really good suggestion. I'll implement that in the next version.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Hi, can you please add a feature for this plugin to hide/show a particular widget when a user is logged-in to site and when they are logged-out? This would be extremely useful for membership websites that use Wordpress as a backend. Seems like an easy feature to include that would add tremendous value. Let me know. Thanks!

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Drew, try deselecting 'Single Page' option and make the target URL equal to blog if your blog's URL is domain.com/blog

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

I am trying to get a widget to appear only on the static “blog page”

The widget contex setting I am using are as follows:

*Display only on selected

*Single page

In text area I have put:

It does not work with those settings.

If I then change the first setting to:

*Display on every page except

then it works, which would be fine but I am unable to get a widget to appear on multiple ‘only’ pages using this method.

Thanks

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Am I using the correct language by putting ... in the text area and ticking “single page”?

Drew, it looks there is something missing in the description above. Could you please give a detailed description of what you are trying to achieve and what are the widget context settings you have specified.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Kaspars, Thanks for your update.

The new update however did not fix my problem. I still have the “Appears on every page accept” box ticked and my widget is ONLY showing up on the blog page.

Am I using the correct language by putting

in the text area and ticking “single page”?

Thanks again.

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Drew, I am using this plugin on this blog and I haven't experienced anything like that before. Could you please check out the latest version of the plugin and let me know if it fixes the problem.

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Jeffro, thanks for inspiration. I finally fixed it. Grab the latest version from the downloads page.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

No, you certainly are not the only one experiencing this problem. I think you have to save those settings twice in a row for them to actually stick.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Hey… I might be going crazy here but when I check “every page except” the results are the exact opposite, ie. the widget is only on that page.

When I check “only on page selected” the widget appears on every other page.

Am I the only one having this problem?

Thanks

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By: Sean Daily

Sean Daily — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Thanks for the updates Kaspar!

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

The problem which Sean had was caused by the plugin checking for variable $paged being < 1 to determine if it is the home page that is currently being viewed. It should have been if $paged < 2, and it has been fixed now in 0.34.

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Ray, no -- it's not that smart. I will try to implement this functionality in one of the next releases. The only problem is that it will add even more input fields to every widget settings, but I guess it would be worth it.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

About the wildcard functionality…

Say we use a wildcard of “/category/example/*”

If we have a custom permalink structure of “/%postname%/”, does the wildcard still target category posts made in the “example” category?

By: Sean Daily

Sean Daily — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Double-checked the config and it all looks right. We use the default home page, not a custom static.

By: Kaspars

Kaspars — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Sean, the configuration for displaying widget on every page should be the following -- display on every page except selected and with no checkboxes selected. Is it the way you have it currently configured? Do you use a custom static home page or a default one?

By: Sean Daily

Sean Daily — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:54 +0000

I tried to make this work on our WP 2.7.1 blog but some odd behavior occurred. We have a custom sidebar-top area in our template with a widget installed, and it wouldn’t appear even when configured to do so on every page.

Also, in the made sidebar of the template, we were not able to get any widgets to suppress display (for example, on the homepage) even when the appropriate checkbox was checked. We definitely saved changes and cleared the browser cache when testing this.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:45:54 +0000

Kaspar:

Wonderful plugin, much needed. I currently setting using wp 2.7 + atahualpa 3.1.7 as a CMS, and your plugin works perfectly. Thanks!