Comments on: Display Widgets WordPress Plugin

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:33:20 +0000

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;

By: tImOthY

tImOthY — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:55:11 +0000

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

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:59:13 +0000

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.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:41:56 +0000

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?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:29:08 +0000

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.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:52:51 +0000

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!

By: DVD Rack Store

DVD Rack Store — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:23:34 +0000

Great plugin you have here..I use it repeatedly on most of my site.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:38:42 +0000

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();
?>

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

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:32:42 +0000

@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/

By: Chellie

Chellie — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:25:38 +0000

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?