Display Widgets WordPress Plugin

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• Bert Padilla says:

  
  

  January 1, 2012 at 6:03 am

  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
• liz says:

  
  

  January 3, 2012 at 11:52 am

  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
• Max says:

  
  

  February 9, 2012 at 12:53 pm

  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.
• Chellie says:

  
  

  February 11, 2012 at 2:25 pm

  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?
• Steph says:

  
  

  February 11, 2012 at 2:32 pm

  @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/
• Matt says:

  
  

  February 15, 2012 at 4:38 pm

  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
• DVD Rack Store says:

  
  

  March 12, 2012 at 12:23 pm

  Great plugin you have here..I use it repeatedly on most of my site.
• TJ says:

  
  

  March 13, 2012 at 9:52 am

  WPML support in the latest version (1.22) of this plugin is not implemented correctly. For example, if I select ‘Front Page’ option and one of the added WPML languages, and the check box is set to “show only on following pages” then only ‘language’ option is activated but other set check box (‘Front Page’) is ignored. The result is that the content of the widget is not only shown on Front Page but also on all other pages that are associated with the the selected language. I think you should check against ‘and and’, not against ‘and or’ which I think is the case now.

  Thus (e.g.):
  ‘Front Page’ + ‘Spanish’ = Content is shown only on Front Page and when Spanish language is selected.

  Is it possible to make this work any time soon in an updated version of a widget. Thanks!
• Alex says:

  
  

  March 20, 2012 at 12:29 pm

  I have noticed the same problem as TJ and since I’m using WPML it has rendered the widget useless. You have to select one of the languages and when you do, it shows the widget on every page for that language.
  I’ve had to revert to the previous plugin release to get this working.

  I just want to also add that this is the first time I’ve had a problem with this widget and it has come in very handy with my wordpress projects.
• Justin says:

  
  

  March 23, 2012 at 11:41 am

  How can I provide a check in my template if the widgets are displaying/are existing on a particular page. When I use is_dynamic_widget. I’m always getting a value of 1 whether the widgets are on or off. is_active_sidebar() just doesn’t seem to work at all.

  Any suggestion?
• Bart says:

  
  

  March 23, 2012 at 7:59 pm

  this widget slows my genesis/lexicon widget page down to a crawl – as in taking 60-120 seconds to open a drop down menu in the primary sidebar. terrible!

  deactivate the widget – everything works fine.
• tImOthY says:

  
  

  April 27, 2012 at 11:55 pm

  So, I’m using this plugin on a site I am building for a client. LOVE it BTW – it has really helped me out. However, recently it has stopped allowing me to add widgets to the home page. I mean I can add them to the sidebar, but they don’t appear unless I choose a sub-page. All the older widgets set to “home” work just fine, but can’t add any new ones. I would be VERY grateful for some help on this. Thanks
• Jess says:

  
  

  May 6, 2012 at 8:33 am

  Thanks so much for this plugin!! I’ve been looking for something like this for ages and had pretty much decided to give up looking and write my own.

  One thing I found is that the display-widget.php code needed to be altered in order for my widgets to display on the homepage when the ‘Front page’ checkbox was ticked. Here’s what I changed:

  if (is_home()){
  //$show = isset($instance['page-home']) ? ($instance['page-home']) : false;
  $show = isset($instance['page-front']) ? ($instance['page-front']) : false;

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