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

wow, look at all of them. FT salutes you


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  1. admin on 22 December 2009 #

    your root and default location paths look unusual, and i think that that might be breaking the string chopping that goes into working out the changes in paths and URLs. which would explain missing previews, and possibly the failure to filter and move back

    can you just check for me that you have got those right.

    another thing. you say ‘I can upload to my RU created folders’. the method I use with RU is to upload to the default ‘wp-content/uploads/’ folders and use RU to move stuff from there to the special folders. are you saying that you are setting the WP uploader to upload to a specific folder (in the WP misc settings screen)

  2. Vince † on 24 December 2009 #

    Great plugin!

    Is there such a thing as a WP conditional tag that allows for NOT statements i.w. “is_not_home()”? I’m trying to say that I want a widget to appear on all pages EXCEPT a specific page.

    Thanks!

  3. chodorowicz † on 28 December 2009 #

    it’s such a usefull plugin – maaany thanks for making it!

  4. Martina † on 30 December 2009 #

    Using the arras-theme I have one problem with your plugin with the widget “Last Previews”. I want this widget only appear on “home”. But the command “is_home()” doesn’t work. The widget cant be seen anywhere. What is wrong? Can you help me please?

    Your Widget Logic-Plugin seems to be the one I was looking for. :) It does its job very well, but only this problem irritates me a bit.

  5. ABRAHAM Morgan † on 1 January 2010 #

    If found a bug inside the relocate-upload plugin.
    While using it on a windows based server, the ABSPATH constant contains the path in windows style but the \ is considered as an escaping character and diseappears.
    To correct this, i used url_encore function on the ABSPATH contant on line 102 in relocate_upload.php

  6. Sid Webb † on 12 January 2010 #

    Something strange is happening. I am using two page templates. One is “main”. The other is “Gallery”. I am using the conditional “is_template” to determine which widgets show up on template. All my pages work fine except one…(see tab “Information/Let’s Talk”. All pages should look the same except “Gallery”. The only thing I can see that may cause the problem is that there are lots of posts on the “Let’s Talk” page. Any suggestions?

    http://www.sidwebb.com/WPress

  7. Sculley † on 27 January 2010 #

    I feel really stupid….I don’t understand how to use the widget. I’m trying to get certain things to show on blog page but not on other pages. Currently, every page — even static pages with sidebar — have every widget and someone suggested I use this to only put things on blog sidebar. I looked in Admin > Widget but don’t see how to do it.

    Thanks!

  8. Alan on 27 January 2010 #

    Sid, have you tried the suggestions in the FAQ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/faq/
    Sculley, read the notes at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

  9. Sculley † on 27 January 2010 #

    I read that and it didn’t make sense. Sounds like you have to be a programmer type yes?

  10. Alan not logged in † on 28 January 2010 #

    if you couldn’t make sense of the screenshots and other notes, then, yes you should consider using it quite a high-level programmer thing.

    there are other, friendlier plugins that allow you to show some. check out ‘widget context’ plugin

  11. Leah Raeder † on 6 February 2010 #

    Just wanted to share this as an example for others who might be struggling with logical statements. Could be a good example to add to the notes. Sorry if it was already mentioned.

    I wanted to display widgets on all posts and pages EXCEPT for single posts in a certain category. I figured the following would work:

    !is_single() && !in_category(‘category’)

    However, this excluded the widgets not only from single posts in “category,” but from ALL single posts. It seemed like the AND operator was behaving as an OR operator. I tried enclosing the whole statement in parentheses, but it didn’t change anything. It took me a while to figure out that this unexpected result was because of the ! modifier.

    The proper syntax for this statement is:

    !(is_single() && in_category(‘category’))

    This will display widgets for everything except single posts in the category named “category.”

    Hope this is helpful to someone to make tearing my hair out worth it. :D

  12. Steve † on 9 February 2010 #

    Really wish the instructions for TTF integration we’re clearer. Have read and re read the FAQ and Other Notes and like several posters here, am none the wiser. Shame

  13. Scarlett † on 10 February 2010 #

    I’m having the same issue as kippiper was. I can’t get this plugin to work when I’ve defined a static page as the front page of my site. I’ve tried setting these variations in the Widget Logic field of the widget with no results:

    is_front_page()
    is_front_page(’4′)
    is_front_page(‘page-slug-here’)

    I’ve even tried is_page() with the ID and slug of the page, but the widget never shows up. I have “wp_reset_query” checked, and it’s not a theme issue, as I’m getting no results with the default WordPress theme either. Any ideas?

  14. Scarlett † on 10 February 2010 #

    One other thing – in trying other conditions, I’ve realized that the Widget Logic conditions aren’t working at all on my site. Either the widget displays on all pages or none, no matter which condition I try. I’ve attempted using the conditions on three different widgets with the same results. I’m using the Thesis theme, which has never clashed with any other plugin I’ve tried. Very odd.

    Additionally, wp_reset_query unchecks itself every time I leave the Widgets page in the WP admin.

  15. admin on 10 February 2010 #

    if you tick “use wp_reset_query fix” and hit the ‘save’ button next to it, it should stick no bother. what version of wp are you on?

  16. Scarlett † on 10 February 2010 #

    Unfortunately it doesn’t stick – wp_reset_query is always unchecked as soon as I leave the Widgets page. I’m using the most recent WordPress upgrade (2.9.1, I believe?)

    I ended up switching to Slayer’s plugin – of the 3 I tried, it’s the only one that works. It might be a combination of my theme and the widgets I’m trying to implement this on, not sure!

  17. admin on 10 February 2010 #

    this site is 2.9.1 and i don’t get that behaviour. i would love to know if switching to a wp default theme cured that issue. (also if it made the logic work.)

  18. Scarlett † on 11 February 2010 #

    I tried switching to three other themes with the same results. Really have no idea what the problem was and why the Slayer plugin solved it. I’m sorry I can’t be of more help!

  19. Robert † on 17 February 2010 #

    I am not a php coder so most of this logic code makes no sense to me at all.
    I just want a line of code in Widget Logic to NOT display a widget on the Home page.

    Will this do it?

    is_not_home()

  20. Robert † on 17 February 2010 #

    As an update—and when I use what I think is the logical line:

    is_home()

    The target widget disappears from the Home page and all other pages too, which is not what I want!

    I’m using WP2.9.1 and the Flexx Canvas 2.0 theme from ithemes.

  21. Robert † on 17 February 2010 #

    And more—when I set

    is_front_page()

    It does the exact reverse of what I want. The Home page displays the widget and the other pages do not!

    Is this to do with using a static page?

    Driving me nuts.

  22. Robert † on 17 February 2010 #

    To eat my own dogfood, the correct line turned out to be:

    !is_front_page()

  23. Rosemary † on 25 February 2010 #

    Hi, I appreciate your widget-logic plugin’s approach, but am hesitant to install since it says you have not updated the plugin in many months (Last Updated: 2009-6-14). Do you anticipate keeping this plugin current?? Thanks.

  24. Alan on 25 February 2010 #

    Looking at the Compatibility widget on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/ says its working fine on 2.9.2 – i will update the ‘compatible up to’ text

  25. media † on 1 March 2010 #

    I’m very very thank, because this plugin is sooo great and very usefull. Very great. I sue for many site. thanksss :)

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