We have just released the latest update to our Widgets on PagesWordPress plugin. The changes for this latest release are as follows;
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.
We have just released our 0.0.4 version of the Wigets on Pages WordPress plugin. This release has only one change but is one that covers the majority of the requests from our users… namely upping the limit of the number of sidebars that are available. In fact we didn’t just up the maximum number but we have scrapped it completely.
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.
I recently had requests to update the Widgets on Pages wordpress plugin to allow for multiple sidebars to be defined. This was is certainly on our roadmap for the plugin but at present we just don’t have the time. So instead I’m gonna post some code which will let you adapt the plugin in it’s current state to cope with more. This is by no means the best way forward as ideally the number of widget areas should be dynamic… and that is the reason we are not updating the plugin ourselves to adopt this methodology.
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.
Our newest WordPress plugin Widgets on Pages has just been released (and actually already improved and upgraded to 0.0.2). The plugin allows for a widget area (sidebar) to be populated and then shown inline in a the core content of a page or post.
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.
