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 –>
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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 @ ghostfood.tv
@joey #448, looks like you home is fine, so I’m going to guess you fixed it?
I have used widget logic for over three months on a development site.and i am very pleased with it. I uploaded to 0.52 and immediately Nextgen galleries could not locate either galleries or pictures.
It came the same day i upgraded word press 3.4.1and suffusion 4.2.4 so i was not sure of the underlying cause
After a bit of testing i was able to switch the error in Nextgen on and off simply by loading unloading Widget Logic.?
Any thoughts
i am trying to think what difference deactivating and reactivating WL would make? I’m afraid I don’t know enough about nextgen galleries to know at what level WL could be interfering.
One new thing to try is the ‘Load logic’ setting which sets the point that WL starts to be checked – if you set it from the default ‘early as possible’ to a later point, see what difference that makes. Of course, you are all set now (for whatever odd reason!), but for next time. Glad you are ok tho.
Hi there!
First of all, nice job i found Widget Logic very useful.
Thank you!
Second, i am using it on website based on wordpress 2.9.2 that i am not going to update to an newer version.
I never had any kind of problem before, but today casually i found an error message under admin panel / widget section.
I wasn’t able to expand any of the sidebars in this section there in the admin section. The website works well anyway.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function submit_button() in …/wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/widget_logic.php on line 194
And this is the line:
\< ?php submit_button( __( 'Save WL options' ), 'button-primary', 'widget_logic-options-submit', false ); ?\>
Now i need to make some changes to this website especially on widgets so i’m gonna asking you: what might have happened? And how can i fix that?
Thank you
Piero
Ah thanks for that. Turns out submit_button is WP 3.1 and later, and I never noticed. I might revert that to make it 2.8 compatible. someone else said it wasn’t worked pre 3.0, and i was most put out, but they gave me no more clues. I will have a tinker.
you can fix it in the short term by reverting to an older version
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/developers/
error in 0.53
see: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-problem-after-upgrading-to-053?replies=7#post-2983754
Hi your plugin widget login has a upgrade to day I did it and now it does not activate and i received this message
Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in /home/offshore/public_html/wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/widget_logic.php on line 264
You know what happen?
Rene
Apologies to the many people who updated to the accidentally prematurely released 0.53 I’ve been trialling. I rolled back the WP repository ‘stable version’ to 0.52 as soon as the problem was brought to my attention.
i’m afraid you will have to manually remove WL to make your site function again and then reinstall the properly stable 0.52
0.53 will be out soon to fix what are relatively minor bugs, so it’s rubbish that i’ve caused so much badness in the process :-(
please help on this issue, i have used widget logic for years, suddenly on my artisteer created theme, i enter my conditional tag into the widget “twitter widget” and the widget “diy tarot” and on pressing save the conditional tag disappears. it is working fine on the other text widgets. i have also deactivated all other plugins, same issue, i have further placed the conditional statement recomended by you at the end of the loop. no solution. funnily, on other blogs also using artisteer theme the twitter widget accepts the conditional tag. i have also updated deactivated and reactivated the problem plugins. thanks in advance. tamsin
“the conditional statement recomended by you at the end of the loop”
sorry, Misty, what is that you are referring to there. I’ve no clue why some widgets should lose their WL on saving – i’ve even looked at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/diy-tarot/ and it seems harmless enough. sorry
Alan,
Before I had just deactivated the plugin. It’s active now and still has the error in the header, twice.
http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/seriously-an-electric-toothbrush-turned-this-mouth-snob-around-ad/
Funny thing is it’s always worked fine before… then in June after some WP upgrades it got wonky.
Gah, can’t edit the previous comment anymore but the PHP in one of my widget had improper spaces and junk. Fixed it and the problem is resolved :) Yippie.
Just FYI, if you accidentally enter a line break into a widget’s “widget logic” field, it breaks the plugin and puts a lot of error codes all over your site. When the plugins page is refreshed, the line break disappears from the widget logic field, making it really difficult to determine the cause of the error (trust me). If you save the widget again, without the line break in the widget logic field, the error is gone.
Thanks steve – i will check and add that to my to do list. I have been very poor at updates for ages now – ust try harder
Hi,
The plugin is great. I need some help, the sidebar is not picking a the standard width. How do I change the width size?
Here the link http://dev.myhavens.com/latest-technology-news-and-update/
Please help!
Widget Logic is one of the must have plugins when it comes to WordPress. I use it pretty much for every site I create. However, there have been some compatibility issues in the recent WP 3.5, I hope Alan will have some time to do needed modifications.
Installed Widget Logic just now, and it saved my day! Thank you so much for the brilliant piece of work! This is definitely one of the “must-have” wordpress plugins. Thank you again! :)
Plug-in is very important for word-press. I want to add this plug-in my word-press anybody help me. How possible this work.
Thank you Benny
Hello, it is Widget Logic plug-in working on WordPress 3.8.1 ?
yes. i’ll update the compatible version ID soon
Wow, high praise and from Google no less…
Wow, what a supportive website incredibly uncle to new users and whatnot.
Actually, more seriously, I did wonder about if you (or someone) could have a separate linkawidget to have the “Latest Message” sidecar on its own? I often link to the “Popular” front page, and have to scroll down several wonderful Number Ones to get to the bottom, and often on flicking find I have pressed too hard and now I have the initial view of The Tampera, andhave to start over..
Right now it sounds liie BlogEngine is the best blogging platform out there right now.
(from what I’ve read) Is that what you are using on your blog?
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Hello there, I hope you are doing well. First I would like to thank you for writing such a great widget. I installed it in hopes of making life easier for my client, well ok, and myself during development LOL.
I am using the Avada theme on the latest WordPress but cannot for the life of me get it to show no matter what I use.
I tried this
is_category(19,11,10,12) || (is_single() && in_category(19,11,10,12))
so if it is one of those categories, or a post within one of those categories, then that given widget would work, but still nothing.
:(
I did post over on the plugin support page but nobody there seems to be able to help
Thankies
Tanya