The 10 days of awsome releases debutes today with Custom Widgets 2.0. This is a release everyone is excited about, and which contains tons of improvements, bug fixes and extra addons.
The most significant change you will notice will be the overall design of the Custom widgets options pannel. We’ve updated the old WordPress 2.6 styled design to suit the new and sleek design of WordPress 2.7. Along with the new design we’ve fixed several compatibility bugs and implemented two much requested features: Widget name display, and more organized management. Click image below for preview.
Your text widgets will now have their title displayed in the widget management section, and finding posts you want to assign a specific widget to just got a lot easier. We got a suggestion from mufasa in which he suggested we add scroll bars to all the widget categories.
As you can see on the management preview we did implement his suggestion to the widgets that are assigned.
I talked to mbogdan and he suggested we don’t implement this feature for posts and tags, because displaying 1000+ posts at a time would put a huge load on the server and database, so to make everything simpler we added pagination to almost all sections.
All posts/tags/pages, etc are organized alphabetically and by this way using the pagination you will easily find the post or item you want to assign a widget to. Cool huh? Also lets not forget mentioning that using the master tick box you can select multiple posts at once. Click image below for preview.
Basically the bottom line is that you will find the new version of custom widgets more flexible and more simple to use. Even a newbie wordpress user can manage it!
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Installation & Usage
***To upgrade from CW 1.2 to v2.0 simply overwrite the old files with the new ones.
1) Download the .zip file to your computer and log into your wordpress admin panel.
2) In your admin panel head over to the plugins section and select the Add new segment. Browse to the custom widgets.zip file and click the Install button. WordPress will unzip the plugin and install it for you.
3) Click the Activate Plugin link, after which you will notice the TS Custom Widgets segment in the bottom of the menu. Clicking it will take you to the management panel.
4) Before you can assign “custom widget” you will have to head over to the good ‘ol widgets section in the Apperance section and add or create new widgets. Once you’re done head over to TS Custom widgets section and assign your widget(s) to the desired sections.
5) That’s it, repeat the second part of step 4 with all the widgets you wish to turn into “custom widgets”
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Your text widgets will now have their title displayed in the widget management section
I’m having a bit of trouble with that. My text widgets still all just say Text, no titles.
I completely removed the plugin and started fresh, still no go.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Suzie
Hey Suzie,
thats weird, we did lots of testing and everything is fine. Are you using a wordpress version prior to 2.6?
Hey, I fixed it.
Line 60 of admin_template_main.php,
Change wp_widget_text
to widget_text
Works great now!
(I’m using 2.7)
Thanks!
Hey Suzie,
i’m glad to hear you were able to manage the issue
we did some more testing and we couldn’t reproduce the issue, everything is working fine with “wp_widget_text” on our side
cheers,
Tom
Was wondering about something on Custom Widgets..
When one assigns a widget to appear on archive pages it appears on any page that falls under is_archive(), As that tag captures all archive type pages, regardless of how I organize my templates, any archive type shows the widget. I was wondering if there is any way to have the archive page option exclude, for example, categories pages.
Any suggestions would be great, and thanks for such an awsome widget.
Nice plug-in here. Everything seems to be working fine but I can not get a widget to just show up on my ‘Blog” page. I have tried reinstalling the plug-in to no avail. Funny thing is I can get a widget to show up on any other single page, just not the “Blog” page.
Any suggestions?
Drew
UPDATE:
It seems there is a conflict when using the ‘static page’ option in WP. I have my front page and blog page set to a static page and no matter what I change them to I can’t get a custom widget to be singled out on the static ‘blog page’. Hope that helps.
Thanks again.
Drew
Cannot seem to get this to work within my Dark Essence theme by ithemes. Any idea if this will work with that theme?
Thanks,
john
Love the plugin!
I may just be dim – but I’m having trouble getting a widget to show on both the blogpage AND post pages.
any thoughts?
i disabled the widget from all pages except “Phil’s Musings…” which is my wordp[ress blog page–its now showing up on the blog site–it shows Phil/’s–i did not add the backslash–your software apparently did it
I can’t get Custom Widgets to appear on my posts page
http://76.12.159.56/?page_id=73
It works fine on the static pages, and fine on the tags page, but not the main posts page.
This is the same for my template and the default wordpress template. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Susan
I meant that my problem was the same for my theme and the default wordpress theme.
Close thread. I figured it out. I didn’t have enough of the extended features checked.
I’m having the same issue as Suzie: text widgets aren’t showing their title in the Custom Widgets page. I’ve yet to try the solution that Suzie mentioned, but thought you should know that more than one person is experiencing this issue, so maybe something can be done to fix it. Thanks for an otherwise amazing plugin!
I can confirm that the fix Suzie mentioned also worked for me!
I just made a donation for this excellent plugin..
I’m currently unable to get widgets to display on tag pages. I don’t know if it’s related, but I notice that when choosing which tags to display, the button says ‘add selected categories’ rather than ‘add selected tags’. Any help would be appreciated.
This is a fabulous plugin. I love it!
I’m having trouble with one page on my site. I’m using a static page as the home page and created a blog page. It’s the blog page that won’t display the widgets. It displays properly on each blog post and I have full control of which widgets to display.
Any ideas of why it won’t display on the blog page?
Thanks
Murray
Hi
1st let me say Great Plugin. But i’ve hit a issue. I can setup all widgets as i want fine. But if i decide i no longer wnat widget x only to appear in one cat, but like to change it back to all.
When i edit it and remove cat and it reads all and everything looks right. The widget stops appearing altogther.
I’ve tried the reset widget button several times. I’ve tried removing widget from it’s place in WP and re adding and saving changes. But nothing appears to work.
Has anyone else has this issue. How can i work around this. As in general not major issues.
When I select a widget to only show on certain pages, there is no option to show on the home page. Noticed others with same problem, but didn’t see the solution. Awesome app!
Thanks!
awesome plugin. Thanks, Slayer.
Just a note though as has been mentioned — I can’t get anything to appear on the blog sidebar. Same set up as someone else mentioned: I’m using a static page as the home page and created a blog page. It’s the blog page that won’t display the widgets.
All the best, Yael
this is exactly what i was looking for and works great except for the blog page that i have set as my static page for posts. I selected the page i have set as the static page for posts in the widget ui for pages and the widgets dont display. However, if i set a different page as the post page, the widget do appear on the page i selected under the pages UI. this appears to be a bug with static pages set for posts.
Hi
This is a fantastic plugin. Thanks for creating. I have just put on a new child theme which has 2 extra widget areas – one of which is a Utility:Splash located below the heade. The plugin is not recognizing either of these 2 widget areas ?? though it recognises all the others. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have deleted plugin and reinstalled but no change. thanks. Luke
Hey, the plugin isn’t working for me! Can you help me fix it?
I’m having problems with step 4: Before you can assign “custom widget” you will have to head over to the good ‘ol widgets section in the Appearance section and add or create new widgets.
I don’t see a way to add or create new widgets when I go to the Appearance/Widgets section.
Does anyone has a suggestion? Thanks a bunch.
Hey slayer, how do I make a donation? The Chip In event posted here has ended.
I am having a problem, it was working fine then now that I upgraded and did a fresh install. when clicking on a widget to customize I get this….
/wp-admin/admin.php image /wp-admin/admin.php
Hey, it’s not working for me. I can’t get to any of the edit pages for each widget. When I click on the name of a widget (blue or red) it just returns an empty XML file…. ?????
Here’s a screenshot:
http://www.bettafootwear.com/tempDELETE/NotWorking.JPG
Could the problem be related to this (screenshot)?:
http://www.bettafootwear.com/tempDELETE/CouldBeProblem.JPG
Yeah, can’t wait until you can work out that bug with static pages for the home page… Glad I’m not the only one with this issue.
Hi,
Cool plugin! I’m using it in a site with a bunch of pages… about 26 so far…one widget is basically on every page but home… The pages I added today aren’t showing the widget.. Odd thing is when looking at the source, it looks like the widget wrapper is coming through… but not the contents.
If you want to take a look look at http://www.tereshalee.com and any page but home… L sidebar – music player Is shows on most pages but if you to the last few pages on the “songs” dropdown… the player is absent. I have removed the widget and reinstalled it and re-entered the Custom Widget entries… but it still acts the same…
Hope you can help!
I can’t figure out how to make a widget appear only on my fixed pages and not on the posts or down the side of the blog list.
Thanks for a great plug-in. I’m trying to get it to appear in the admin area for other users, but it only appears for the “Administrator” role. Is there something I can edit to make it appear for “Editors” or other custom roles? I’m using Role Manager plugin to create a custom user role.
Thanks!
I’m really glad to read about the improvement to the text widgets. That is awesome news!!!
I talked to mbogdan and he suggested we don’t implement this feature for posts and tags, because displaying 1000+ posts at a time would put a huge load on the server and database, so to make everything simpler we added pagination to almost all sections.
I agree regarding posts and tags. I think the scroll bar should be optional though for pages – we have 30 pages to go through and sometimes you forget the page names so alphabetical order doesnt really help in my situation.
I think turning scroll bars on for fast servers should be an optional configuration.
Also an AJAX search would be freaking awesome. I wish I had the resource to make this patch for you guys.
Love your work!! Keep it up
- Dan
Hello.
I am having the same problem Suzie was and also that Shannon was having where custom text widgets are not showing their title vs. just showing up as ‘Text’ in the admin panel.
I did try the fix Suzie and Shannon indicated worked for them, but its not working for me unfortunately. I am running Version 2.8.4 of wordpress.
Thank you for a great plug in! Hopefully we can figure this out because this is the ONLY truly annoying thing about it. Considering I have about 110 widgets that are ‘text’ I really need to get this fixed
Awesome. Working with it now on my blog. Made the process of having non-ad and ad-supported categories much easier than I expected. (Definitely throwing some money your way)
Can you add to your list showing the ‘title’ of a text widget in the custom widgets home page? this would make it much simpler for custom widgets that I have done to know what they are.
WP 2.8.4
I’m seeing the same issue as Suzie and others that ‘Text’ Widgets are not displaying their titles in the admin panel
Additionally her fix did not solve my problem.
@Nadeem Aslam
I had this issue as well and the only way I could solve it was to ‘Rest all widgets’ from the main TS Custom Widgets panel.
It was a pain to reconfigure all the widgets, but it did solve the problem.
Hi,
) This is an awesome plugin in every other aspect!!!
I’m having the same problem as mentioned before… With a static page chosen for the Blog (i.e. “Blog”), Custom Widgets doesn’t seem to be able to assign a widget to only that page. Is there an update? Workaround? It works fine on any other static page. I’ll be happy to donate something once this is fixed
Hello, i love your custom widget plugin and i’ve used it several times before without any problem but now i tryed using embed codes with text widgets to made custom ads and i faced a problem, the embeded object show perfectly in the home page but they stay blank in any other page where i try to show them. I’m not sure if your plugin is the cause but it’s the only thing different and before the swf files were showing no matter wich page i was seeing. Appreciate if you can help me. Even you saying that it’s not from your plugin is a big help, that way i know i must look into some other thing.
Thanks in advance,
Rui Santos
This is the second time I tried to comment. If it is duplicate, I am sorry.
My question revolves around the efficiency of this widget/plug-in in cases where a 300-400 page site may incorporate a unique widget for each page.
Will the plug-in be able to handle that many variable and if so, will it slow down the page load time.
Thanks. Awesome plug
Thanks for this excellent plugin! I too am having issues with the title displaying in WP 2.8+ – I think it’s a problem with the way WordPress handles widgets from 2.8 on.
I was able to change line 66 in admin_template_main.php to this:
echo !empty($wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['title']) ? $wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['title'] : $wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['id'];
….and now I actually get the generic title of the widget and the instance id but still no specific title. I’m not a PHP expert so I don’t really know what I’m doing, just messing around.
Does anyone know how to get the specific title to display? That seems to be the only thing missing from this awesome plugin at the moment…
Thanks,
Jonah
Hi,
I’m having the same problem as mentioned before… With a static page chosen for the Blog (i.e. “Blog”), Custom Widgets doesn’t seem to be able to assign a widget to that page. Is there an update? Workaround? It works fine on any other static page. I’ll be happy to donate something once this is fixed ) This is an awesome plugin in every other aspect!!!
Change line 60 of admin_template_main.php
FROM
$wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['callback'] == ‘wp_widget_text’
TO
$wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['name'] == ‘Text’
The above change will display text widget title. I have tested this is 2.8
thanks for the up. I will look into this. I have been wording how to make certain widgets show up where I want.
Peace…
Thank you Sarfaraz for finding a solution the text widget title problem with 2.8!
If you check the box before ‘show only on homepage’, it’ll ensure the block is shown on the page set as blog home. This is the solution to the issues with sites who have a static page set as their posts home page, while another static page is their site home page. The ‘home page only’ setting refers to the posts home page.
Hey thanks for this plugin! One day when I make money off my projects I will donate to you! Promise!
I think your custom widgets plugin is genius and one of the most useful of all available plugins. Thanks for creating this.
I can confirm that the fix below which was mentioned by Sarfaraz also solve the title issue in 2.9.2 Thanks so much for that…I was pulling my hair out and I haven’t got much!!!
Change on line 60
FROM
$wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['callback'] == ‘wp_widget_text’
TO
$wp_registered_widgets[$widget_id]['name'] == ‘Text’
thanks for this great plug-in… it work perfectly
I’m using version 2.0 with WP 2.9.2, and encountered a bug where resetting a widget caused it to appear on no pages (rather than all pages). The simple fix was to edit line 18 of admin_template_edit.php to:
unset($this->widgets[$_GET['id']]);Thanks for the plugin!
Thanks for the great plugin, but like some others I am running into issues with custom widgets. It seems that the default for standard widgets is to show on ALL, but the default for custom widgets is NONE, with no access to show on ALL. Also, the option to add the HOME page to the list of pages would be helpful.
Thanks.
Absolutely fantastic plugin Slayer. I can tell you put a lot of energy into it, and it helps tons of people and tons of blogs be… better. Thanks so much for sharing man.
Let me start by saying this is a really great tool, especially for those using a blog platform to support a website not intending to appear like a blog. Absolutely essential.
But I’m having some trouble with a static home page vs. blog page. I have a static home page but every time I remove a widget from the home page, it also removes it from the blog page. Once I do that it will NEVER show up on the blog page again, even if I revert to ALL PAGES with that widget. The only way to get it to show on the blog page again is to completely rebuild the widget. Any ideas? Thanks
How can I show one widget ONLY on Home page?? This is driving me totally crazy. The plugin is fantastic, congratulations!
It would be awesome if you could include support for custom post types. That would mean I could apply widgets to my custom post types such as “jobs” and then have alternates for “posts” etc.
Hi, thank you for the widget, it is one of the best wordpress widgets. It works fine on my pages, but not on my posts. It any fix for that? Thank you.
The function “is_active_sidebar()” doesn’t work properly with this plugin. If I hide all widgets in sidebar, is_active_sidebar() returns “true”
i’m struggling to get this working here. Is there a way to get different Text Widgets to display on different static pages? After installing, it doesn’t seem possible.
Great plugin!
One problem:
I develop sites that auto-calculate the size/position of multiple “sidebars” based on if the sidebar is active or not, but if I “hide” all the widgets in a specific sidebar on certain pages, I get an empty space sidebar where the widget was assigned, instead of having the sidebar itself unset.
…is there a way to adjust it so if all widgets from a sidebar are unset on a page the “is_active_sidebar(‘sidebar_name’)” function returns a false?
I really appreciate any assistance you can provide.
I just can’t figure out how to use it, the interface is so overwhelming, I just wanted to have a specific widget show on pages with a certain tag, or a certain category. I just can’t figure out what does what, and I’ve used 100′s of plugins.
Great plugin. I have used it in my other blog perfectly. I want to use it again, but I can’t find it in the WordPress dashboard automatic activation.
Custom widgets v. 2.0. is now 2 years old.
Any developments? Will it work with WP 3.x?
Hi ! your plugin is fabulous, but I have been stuck by the problem of activating custom widget on single pages used as Blog, i’ ve read here a lot of comment about it, I haven’t read all the comments so i don’t if someone has already posted a solution…
so i post mine, witch seems to work well on my WP config
config – WP3, default template, with single pages as home and blog pages and “/actuality/%category%/%postname%.html” as permalink structure :
— CUSOM WIDGET ON SINGLE PAGE BLOG —
- in in the “Page” box don’t set the plugin for the page used as blog page
- instead just enable “Show Widget Only on Homepage”
(it’s tricky, i think you’ve given this name because Homepage is the Actuality page on default config, maybe you should rename this as “show Widget on Actuality page”)
- you could also enable “Show Widget on all posts” and “Show Widget on all Category” to enable it for single posts ans cat pages
note : to enable widgets for a Page used as Homepage, you still can use the top “Page” box to add it, as usual
et voila…
hope it will be usefull
ps : sorry for my poor english and thanks Again !!!
Love this plugin.
But have same problem as Murray and Yael. Have a static page as homepage and blog-page elsewhere in site-nav-structure. The blog-page won’t display the desired widget… What to do?
Hello, you have a great plugin and it has been the best solution for my site.
I am working with custom taxonomies and post types.
Can you guide me how to put Custom widgets to these?
In your plugin I only get the option to assign to posts, pages, categories, tags and authors, but not to custom post types or custom taxonomies.
Please help meeeee…
Thanks in advance
Is there a way to target custom post types with the PlugIn?
hi slayer,
i was gonna comment to you, that my text widgets are still called “text”, but when i read the reactions i see that i’m not the only one.
i’m using the latest WP (3.2.1), and TS custom widgets 2.0.
i’ve got about 6 text widgets, which are all called “text” in stead of the name i entered.
i’ve noticed that you haven’t replied in a while, but i hope somebody reads this that can help.
cheers, vincent.
Can you include home page to the list of pages?
I am trying to exclude widget from homepage and I only see “about” page on the list of available pages.I think managing home page widgets is very important
thanks
Is anyone else having problems displaying the titles in the admin area in WordPress version 3.2 and above. I am seeing the widget name, not the widget title that I have setup. This leads to lots of widgets called the same thing. I tried the fixes mentioned above, but they don’t seem to be working. Thanks.
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Hey this plugin download link not working. I tried this using Google Chrome. Thanks
Custom Widgets – super cool plugin! Thx!!
Hi, really great plugin, but same here: In WP 3.3.1 I can’t see the titles also I tried all fixes mentioned before…
Does anybody knows how to get the real or my own title names in this plugin in wp 3.3 and later?
cheers Peter
Quick question, I have your plugin installed, but I also have a plugin that add Tags to pages as opposed to using it for posts. As the custom widgets works for just about everything, when tagging pages, it does not add my custom menu to the page, becuase it is not reading the tags from those pages. So to simplify, I have a page that has a tag name “html5″ I go to add this as a tag in ts custom widgets, but the menu does not pull up on the page when associating the page to the tag only if that page is a post will the Custom widget come up. Any ideas on a quick fix to also apply tags to pages with your plugin?
i am looking to dl this plugin but it seems to be gone, and i cannot find any download anywhere! help!
You can download it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slayers-custom-widgets/
Please note that this plugin is very very very VERY outdated. Really. It might or might not work with the latest wordpress version.
Version 3.0 of Custom Widgets is under development, however don’t have a release date yet, considering that we’re building a fresh version from the ground up.
Feel free to submit feature requests here in the comment section
thanks!