Freaky Trigger’s WordPress Setup
Widget Logic
FT had a complex sidebar, but I decided to ‘widgetise’ it when Steve updated the theme in early 2008. To keep some of the special widgets appearing only when needed, I wrote a plugin to extend the functionality of widgets. Widget Logic allows widgets to appear or not depending on standard WP conditional tags, such as is_home() and is_single() and so on.
If you want to contact me about it you should address yourself to the WordPress org directory and perhaps post on the forum there. Or you can leave a comment here, below. PLEASE READ THE FAQ AND OTHER NOTES in the WordPress plugin directory first though.
If you find Widget Logic useful to you, then you could consider a small donation to Cancer Research UK – click ‘Donate’ on the widget over to the right there –>
VIDEO TUTORIAL! Popup or view on YouTube a screencast by Daryl Lozupone. Thanks to him.
Podcast Channels
Podcast Channels is a plugin that augments WP’s RSS feed with some extra elements, mostly in the ‘itunes’ namespace. It works with existing features of WP (auto-enclosures and the media library) to make a simple way to podcast, and allows different metadata in different RSS feeds – you can have as many channels as there are categories, tags, even blog authors.
Like a lot of people I found PodPress increasingly frustrating to use around WP2.6. I still see lots of people using it, but I found it was interfering with too many aspects of WP – wysiwyg editing, the media library, and so on. But there were only two things it did that I liked – show download stats, and allow multiple podcasts on a blog with their own rss and iTunes metadata. So i wrote a couple of plugins to target just those functions.
(I may release the stats plugin some day, but it’s nothing special, a bit clunky, and I really don’t want to support it.)
Freaky Trigger Theme
This was designed by Steve Mannion @ base58.com
Plugins FT uses
- Akismet by Automattic
- Cimy User Extra Fields by Marco Cimmino
- Contextual Related Posts by Ajay D'Souza
- Edit Comments by Andrew Sutherland
- FT Combo by Alan Trewartha
- Get Recent Comments by Krischan Jodies
- Google Custom Search Plugin by Aleem Bawany
- MediaElement.js - HTML5 Audio and Video by John Dyer
- More Fields by Henrik Melin, Kal Ström
- Organize Series by Darren Ethier
- Podcast Channels by Alan Trewartha
- Relocate upload by Alan Trewartha
- Revision Control by Dion Hulse
- SABRE by Didier Lorphelin
- Search Regex by John Godley
- Shadowbox JS by Matt Martz
- Shadowbox JS - Use Title from Image by Matt Martz
- Simple SQL admin by Alan Trewartha
- Track Media Items (TMI) by Alan Trewartha
- Widget Logic by Alan Trewartha
- WP-DBManager by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
- WP-Polls by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
- WP-Polls Widget by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
- WP-PostViews by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
- WP Google Analytics by Aaron D. Campbell
- WP Super Cache by Donncha O Caoimh
- WPtouch by Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode Inc.)
wow, look at all of them. FT salutes you
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Thanks for the plugins, I’ll add them to my lists.
thank you for the helpfull plugin;) i am using it for my blog gehaktballen maken
Not sure if this is an issue or not but when I use
!is_search() || !is_404()widgets appear on both Search and 404 pages. Though, if I use
!is_search() && !is_404()widgets do not appear on either of the 404 or Search pages. Weird, no?
no, not weird! that’s exactly right.
the first one, not search OR not 404, will ALWAYS be true on every page (will only be true if a page is both 404 and search!)
the second one, not search AND not 404, will only be true when the page is not a 404 and not a search.
Hello,
Please could you help me with something, as I find it quite confusion.
OK, so I don’t want a widget to appear in a certain category… I have done that successfully with the following:
!is_category(19)
But obviously that is only for the “category”… This does not apply to the “posts” within that category.
What would be the complete code to block the widget within both the category and every post in that particular category?
Thank you.
you are after a !’d variation on the “How do I get a widget to appear both on a category page and on single posts within that category?” in the FAQ
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/faq/
Hi Freaky Trigger,
I have widget logic running and love it, it works a treat. But I am stumped for a tag for the homepage. The home page dose not seem to have a name or tag, could you suggest a tag that will keep one of my widgets form showing on the homepage please?
Many thanks,
Simon.
@Simon Booton-Mander – use the following:
!is_front_page()
will show the targeted widget everywhere but the designated home page (or front page setting of the WP site).
hth.
I have a question. How to I target a page that I setup in wp to display my blog posts. I have a page for that and a specific page for my home page. I tried both is_post() and is_page() with the page id and the slug, neither of which seemed to work.
Thanks!
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Main_Page
I updated Widget Logic this morning and my site immediately started giving a 500 internal server error. Had to remove it manually. Site OK again now. Would love to use the plugin but it’s causing problems!
try again – it might have been a partial download or something. i’ve had about 5000 downloads (of the recent 0.51 update) so far, and most people are feeding back positively.
Hi I have the following show up on my sidebar:
Primary Sidebar Widget Area
This is the Primary Sidebar Widget Area. You can add content to this area by visiting your Widgets Panel and adding new widgets to this area.
I have the following formula on the widgets I don’t want appearing: !is_page( array ( ‘Find a Spa’, ‘Find a Class’, ‘Find Yoga’, ‘Get a Facial’, ‘Get a Massage’, ‘Editorial Calendar’, ‘Spas Near You’ ) )
Please advise what I should do to have the widgets not appear. Thank you.
The page: http://spadora.net/yoga/
by the sound of it no widgets are appearing. it is common for a theme to have default text when there are no widgets, and in this case the “This is the Primary Sidebar Widget Area…” text is that default text.
If you want rid of that text your options are to alter the theme or to make a single widget appear – one that might be minimal in content/appearance
I am having the same problem on my site. How do you alter the theme to get rid of that text especially if my text is not showing up there?
I’m perplexed. I’ve successfully used your great plugin up until now. No problems. I updated today and not only did all my widgets disappear (including those that were inactive and required editing) but all of my sidebars and new widget areas that I created. It’s not the theme (atahualpa). Is this an example of fixing something that (to me anyway) wasn’t broken? Please, what’s the solution?
BTW, I’m really not a php person, which is why your plugin is so great. It makes a great deal easier. I appreciate the fact that it’s free, but this really is not a complaint, it’s an observation. If I need to use code to correct the problem, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the ease and simplicity of the plugin?
I think I’ve got it working now.
Hi
I’m trying to get the weather widget to only appear on the home page of my wordpress site http://moti.org/blog/
I have installed the widget logic plugin so that I can choose the pages that widgets appear on. This works just fine for all the other widgets except for the weather widget.
What happens is that when I fill in the widget logic box for the weather widget and press update the instruction just disappears. Consequently the meteo appears on every page with a sidebar which is not what I want. I think there must be a conflict or a bug somewhere.
Can you help with a simple solution?
Many thanks
Penelope
On the off chance that Braudis, looks back in, it would be great if you could sketch out what went wrong, in case anyone else sees something similar. It’s not something that the code update should have caused.
Penelope, i’d have to look at the widget you are using. If it’s http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/weather-widget/ i’ll have a quick look soon
Hi – thanks for getting back to me
The weather widget is GoGadget Weather and Weatherforecast Widget.
I used this one because it comes in French and the weather underground forecast for Agen(our local town), France is always very accurate.
I am using an artisteer generated design for the site.
I installed the wigit logic widget and then the goGadgetweather widget and several others including text widgets to appear in the sidebar. Widget logic works for the others but not for the weather one.I fill in the options for the weather widget and then the logic box with
is_page(‘home’)
just like the others then when I press save it disappears – poouf!
I tried everything reinstalling, re-activating ticking and unticking the widget logic boxes at the bottom etc but nothing worked, however I have found a temporary solution.
Following the instructions in the GoGadget manual I activated a shortcode plugin for the weather widget and put it in a text widget. The widget logic code does work with text widgets so I was able to program it to only show on the home page. This is working for now, but it would be nice to have it working properly.
If you send me an e-mail I will send you the login so you can have a look for yourself.
Many thanks
Penelope
Hello,
i find this to be the best plugin out there of its type. And find it very handy to use the short space we have for widgets.
Regards
I am having a nightmare with mine. http://www.egypttodaytravel.com and could really do with advice. I have placed some graphic widgets on my sidebars and they are great when on the home page or on the other “pages” pages. But if they land on a category I get a big brown box that is actually going over my tour summary boxes (from the transfers and transport widget) and falling off the page on the right hand sidebar (for the other widgets). I dont know what I am doing wrong. If I put is_home_page() it disappears, i have tried is_front_page() and I have even tried taking it off the category pages by using !is_category(). Nothing works. I either lose it completely from the home page or if I dont put anything in the logic then it is fine on the home page but the problem comes back into the category pages i.e. 01 Day Tours for example you will see the brown box comes back up. Can anyone help?
Eileen, your problem appears to be a CSS problem. your home page BODY tag has a simple class of “home blog” but the category pages BODY class is (e.g.) “archive category category-01-day-egypt-tours category-57 parent-category-tours-of-egypt” which is very different and the result is different CSS rules get applied.
Hi Alan, thanks for getting back to me. I have absolutely no web design experience at all, our web designer put all the main bits on the website but has failed to respond to me in over a week to try to resolve this problem. And now I’m trying to fix it myself :-) what do I do then to only have the widgets on the home page? or even if its possible on the home page and on the other pages rather than the category ones? most importantly it is the home page I really need them on. But ideally if I could have them on the other pages except for the actual tours or tour summaries. thanks for your help so far Alan xx
Alan, also for example on the individual tours this sidebar is over-writing the key information on the tours too…
http://www.egypttodaytravel.com/index.php/2012/01/tours-of-egypt/abu-simbel-sun-festival-7-nights-tour-programme-including-nile-cruise/ and so I need to take them off there also.
Thanks again, Eileen xx
you mentioned trying is_front_page(), but not is_home() so try that
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Main_Page
Alan! you are my hero!
First of all when I did is_home() it didnt work, it took itcompletely off the home page as well, and I had tried it before and the same thing had happened. However this time I did it again following your advice but also I checked the box …. Use ‘wp_reset_query’ fix [save] and WOOHHOOO it worked! I cant thank you enough Alan.
I have also tried putting or is_page() but that takes it off the home page as well again, so I will not push my luck any more :-) I am just delighted that at least I got it on the home page and I can play around with it further later on. For now, it has definately fixed the problem.
I am so so glad I found this site, you are all fantastic to help us all out like this.
Well done freaky trigger!! I am going to make a donation right now.
And Alan! I cannot thank you enough.
Have a brill weekend!
Eileen xxx
Thanks for the donation!
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How do I add widgets on multiple pages? I wanted to have it on is_front_page() and also on other page?
You can use || between 2 tests to check if either test A or test B are true, e.g. is_front_page() || is_author(‘alan’)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/other_notes/
Just upgraded to Widget logic version 0.51 and suddenly we have ‘META’ and ‘ARCHIVES’ on our home page — but nothing like these in our widgets – how do we hide these? where did they come from?
Solved with adding a blank text widget with blank ‘Widget logic’ to our sidebar then they go away – is it possible version 0.51 now somehow adds a default ‘META’ and ‘ARCHIVES’ when no widgets set on the home page..?!
P.S. we hide our widgets from certain pages using ‘Widget logic’ !is_page( array( 188, 282 ) )
Not quite. Your theme has default sidebar contents when there are no widgets. The new WL code properly tells WP when there are no widgets so this default content appears. Gonna add this to the FAQ when I (finally) get round to the ‘late loading’ extra coding I promised weeks ago :-(
Nice Work. This Plugins Too Good To Be Forgotten like a cup of Coffee in the morning. I love This. By the way, Coffee has a time guys.
Thanks…
Thank for this useful plugin. Anyway how can I post a sidebar on selected multiple pages only?
Good morning, I’m Spanish, sorry if my English is not good.
I have 3 days with a problem to make something very simple.
I want a widget to display only the file index.php, but repeats the widget at: /page2/ & /page/3/ & /page/4/ & /page/5/ and so indefinitely.
Any solution?.
Thank you.
i am struggling to get a plugin that can act as a filter to filter my site for price and certain tags. I dont know how i can do that. Please can you reply
I’m afraid you are going to have to expand on that description, tony.
After the last update, I can’t upload pictures on my blog anymore. I don’t know why, it says “HTTP Error” after I wait a wile and nothing happens. If I Deactivate the plugin, it’s ok.
Knows anyone why?
P.S.: I’ve noticed this issue on two different blogs hosted in two different places.
You’ve got me there – I have absolutely no idea, sorry. And I can’t think of a way of helping you troubleshoot, short of giving me admin access to a site displaying this behaviour.
could it be that some of your logic outputs text? try removing the widget logic from widgets one by one to see if blanking one of them stops this from happening – you can always save out your current WL config for safe keeping.
May Day! May Day!
We recently learned that the IDXpress plugin by Diverse Solutions does not function properly when WL is activated. This is a really tough spot to be in because our site relies so heavily on both widgets that it simply cannot do without one or the other. The IDXpress plugin is a dynamic real estate mls/property search tool that works perfectly when the WL widget is inactivated. However, when WL is activated, the property slide show component of the plugin fails to work.
Your plugin is simply a must have for anyone that uses WordPress and I so hope that you might have some guidance for us.
Here’s an example page: http://califunddot com]/idx/mls-p820512-359_mountain_ct_brea_ca_92821
Thanks in advance for any help you might be willing to offer.
I assume that as the slideshow in that page linked works, that you have deactivated WL. I’d need to see what it and the HTML looks like when WL is active to guess at the problem
Never had a problem with widgets now there is a delay when using and when I take blank widget to use most times I have to click on widgets again to use another one because it is greyed out any help thank you
getting errors on v 0.52:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/jinga/public_html/system67/wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/widget_logic.php(270) : eval()’d code on line 1
something is wrong with the code in your widget-specific “widget logic”