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Even for someone who may be technically minded this is a little unhelpful… but thankfully the solution (in my case at least) was to free up some space on my hosting account. So it seems that the cause of the issue (or at least one of the causes) is that there was not enough space available for the automatic WordPress upgrade to take place.

This plugin allows WordPress users who are using the default TwentyTen theme to convert their site to a ‘responsive’ one. Their site layout then becomes responsive based on the screen size of the device being used to display it and is ideal for those who wish to give an enhanced experience to users whi are on iPhones, Android powered smartphones or tablets (such as the iPad).

For more information head over to our Responsive TwentyTen WordPress plugin page.

To help out folk wanting to acheive this they’ve put together a great YouTube tutorial on how to use it… so for all you guys out there wanting to see Widgets in Pages in action check it out.

• Resolved potential conflict with other plugins. Thanks to Massa P for the tip-off.
• Sidebars/Widgets can be added through the use of template tags in the theme code. This provides a very simple way to add extra sidebars to your WordPress theme.
• Contextual help added (minimal but hopefully gives some direction).
• Improved use of id and class attributes for more standard proof CSS implementation. NOTE: this may mean that current CSS to remove default bullet points now breaks. Please see our blog post on removing these bullet points.

Using the Template Tags

The latest 0.0.7 release allows the addition of widgets (through the addition of sidebars) to your WordPress theme via the addition of a simple template tag. If, for example, you have a Widgets on Pages sidebar named “wop_1″ then you can add the following code to your theme’s PHP code. Note of course that this code needs to be added at the correct position in the code. Further information on WordPress template tags can be found at WordPress.org.

<?php widgets_on_template("wop_1"); ?>

UPDATE

As of version 0.0.10 which can be found on the WordPress plugin repository there is a simple checkbox on the Widgets on Pages option page to remove the bullets. If you’re running this version then you will not need to use the tutorial below… we have kept it here for the sake of learning.

Switching this option on adds a new CSS file link to the website header which basically just includes the content described in the below tutorial.

Removing the bullet points

The problem

When using the Widgets on Pages plugin to show a widgets outside of the normal sidebars defined by a wordpress theme the outputted widgets can appear with bullet points next to them.

Widgets on Pages with bullet point showing

The cause

WordPress outputs the widgets in a sidebar as an unordered list (HTML ul tag). A lot of themes have these unordered lists styled with the CSS list-style: disc or something similar (browsers can have this as their default too) which means these bullet points appear. The reason you don’t see these bullet points next to the widgets in the standard theme sidebars is that they have been styled deliberately to remove these.

The solution

All we have to do is style the list using the CSS list-style property… simply add the following to the theme’s CSS file… et voila!

div.widgets_on_page li { list-style:none; background:none; }

Note: Pre 0.0.7 versions have an id of widgets_on_page rather than class

div#widgets_on_page ul { list-style:none; background:none; }

Widgets on pages with bullets removed

The latest version allows the user to name their Widgets on Pages sidebars and use these names in the posts and pages. This gives the user a much more explanatory route to adding WordPress widgets (via sidebars) into pages and posts on their blog and/or website.

Widgets on Pages option page

The new version also gives the user an extra helping hand in getting started in adding widgets into WordPress posts by showing the required shortcode (that bit of text that adds the sidebar to the post) in the sidebar’s description.

Setting up Widgets on Pages sidebar

We hope that you all find this plugin useful and again we appreciate all feedback including feature requests for future versions.

We decided to remove the maximum limit as it was obvious that peaople were using the plugin in many different ways that were different from how we perceived it being used. Some minimal javascipt validation has been added to try and ensure that the plugin doesn’t break even though the input value has been opened right up.

Please feel free to give us feedback on the plugin if you’re using it.

UPDATE:: OK, so curse of the coder fell upon us… and we did make the update to the plugin to allow additional sidebars to be defined. The newest version of the plugin can be downloaded from WordPress.org.

The new version allows for up to 5 sidebars to be defined via the settings menu. There is one default widget area so this can be used out of the box. Each sidebar can be called independently via a shortcode by supplying an id=x argument to the shortcode.

This can be very useful if you need to, for example, display separate areas of content on the front page of your site… and all the time making sure the content is still manageable by normal wordpress content managers.

At present the plugin only supports one definable widget area that can be used (though it can be included in multiple pages and/or posts.

The latest version of the plugin can be found at the WordPress.org plugin repository.

Our other plugins are listed on our WordPress plugins page

The WPEC Bulk Tools plugin can be downloaded free from the official WordPress plugin directory.

The latest update has come about following a brief email chat with one of the existing users. Thanks to r3altordotcom on twitter.