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Web and graphic design
In case you haven't noticed, the internet isn't going anywhere--or is it? The web is constantly changing and evolving. Is your online presence up to snuff with the times we live in? We can get you there.
By Steph — September 6, 2009
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Change your sidebar content with each page. Avoid creating multiple sidebars and duplicating widgets by adding check boxes to each widget in the admin (as long as it is written in WordPress version 2.8 format) which will either show or hide the widgets on every site page. Great for use with Thesis theme, or just to avoid extra coding.
Changelog
1.5: Added “404 Page” check box
1.4: Changed “Home Page” check box to “Blog Page”
1.3: Added check box for Home page if it is the blog page, Added check boxes for single post and archive pages, Save hide/show option correctly for more widgets
1.2: Save page check boxes for more widgets
1.1: Fixed bug that prevented other widget options to be displayed
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Hi! I think I’m also getting the same problem with some users here. I got the plugin installed and it seemed not to work with my current theme (News Leak). I installed the same plugin in a separate blog using a theme based on PageLines framework so I believe this has something to do with the theme. Do you have any suggestion how to fix this without having to replace the theme? I appreciate it a lot. Thanks!
-Bert
still loving the plug in – still not sorted the home page out but i’m not too bothered about that.
One small wish….I’ve got a couple of pages where i’ve added a sub menu in the side bar, with a separate text widget immediately above along the lines of ‘select from menu below’. Works great but – there is a lot of space between the two and i’d like to reduce it down. Anyone have any ideas?
Cheers
Liz
I installed the plugin always worked fine until I got now over 5000 wordpress pages.. and only the pages starting with the “A” are showed to check for hiding or showing.
I’ve using it for about 2 months and it’s great. I have one issue. There is one widget, About me, that I only want to show on one page but for that one widget, it does not give you the checkbox option. Ironically, this was the reason I used Display widgets. Any suggestions?
@max, Around line 264, you’ll find this:
‘numberposts’ => 999
Change 999 to -1. This will be included in the next version.
@Chellie, please refer to the FAQs for this plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/faq/
Hey Steph,
Loving this plugin!
I have run into a unique way to use this plugin and was wondering if you had any advice.
Basically, I have a WordPress page template that will loop through every child page and display the title, content and sidebars. So the sidebar gets called inside a custom WordPress loop as it loops each child page.
Here’s my code so far which will work but shows the parent page sidebar instance each time if gets called in the loop.
$currentpageid = $post->ID;
$args = array(
‘post_parent’ => $currentpageid,
‘post_type’ => ‘page’
);
// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
// The Loop
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
?>
<?php
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
I was thinking I might write a function that would accept a post/page ID and return the widgets for that page.
Not sure if this is clear but if you have any questions, ideas or suggestions you can reply or email me at beaudrymatt@gmail.com
Thanks so much and great work on this plugin!
Matt