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Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

mario — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:10:22 -0000

Plugin works like a charm even on WP 2.7.1.
thx for a nice piece of work here!

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:09:14 -0000

If it is only happening with that theme then either the theme is loading javascript that has errors in it or it is loading css that conflicts with the css in the plugin.

If it is happening with other themes as well then another plugin may be doing those things.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:07:14 -0000

That is a problem with the WordPress widget system. Check out this post for information on how to reset all widgets to default status: http://justintadlock.com/ar...

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Orange Marketing — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:54:39 -0000

it has damaged my widgets! After configuration my wp-postview widget and FlexoArchive widget are no more visible! I have deactivated your plugin and still not able to get my potview and archive widgets to get visible!

What to do now?

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

stephan69 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:12:56 -0000

Congratulation to that nice plugin which I found a couple of hours ago.
I was able to install, activate, to define a tabbed widget and to put widgets into it.

But it does not appear at the Frontend with ModernOak Theme on WP 2.7.

Any suggestions?

Thanx in advance, BR, St.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:09:34 -0000

Hmm, it has been a long time since I changed this plugin so I don't know why it promoted you to update it. The only thing I can think of is to reset all the widgets. If you add the following line at the top of your theme's functions.php file, refresh the website, and the remove it, it should reset all your widgets.

delete_option('sidebars_widgets');

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Giggli — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:59:30 -0000

I've just transferred my site to a new host. I had Fun With Sidebars loaded, and was prompted to update it. I did, and after the update, the widgets the Tabbed Sidebar 1 contained have vanished *Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and Archive).
They are listed as Used, but don't show up in any of the sidebars included Tabbed Sidebar 1.

I have uninstalled all plugins and reinstalled them, but the widgets remain used. How can I get them back?

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:01:45 -0000

In that case I have no idea what the cause could be I'm afraid. There may be something in your setup causing the problem but on the default theme with no plugins there is no reason I can think of why it wouldn't work.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Tommy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:20:00 -0000

I turn off every plugins and it still doesn't work... I switch to another theme and the same issue. Strange and soo bad cause it's great plugin

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:24:03 -0000

Tommy, the most likely cause is an error in the Javascript of another plugin.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Tommy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:37:29 -0000

Hi I see there is great topic about great idea. I have installed Your plugin but I have problem cause when i install it goes fine in the admin/widgets. I Can see there Tabbed sidebar, I can change 1,2 many sidebar. But nothing happen when I go on my page. It's just like one bottom another like normal siderbar. No tabs. I use 3k2 Theme (it include 2 sidebar itself). What it can be? CSS issue? Oh I need to say that i try with defalut theme and others - with this same problem. I don't need add anything in theme files? Sorry but I'm not good in english at all. Regards !!

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:51:18 -0000

I'm afraid there isn't really a way to prevent that from happening it is a function of the amount of time it is taking the page to load.

For styling the contents of the widgets you will need to find out if that widget has a specific ID or class that you can use to style it with. You would need to write separate CSS for it.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

ckd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:35:32 -0000

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the information, I have the tabs working and looking pretty much the way I want them to now. Just have a couple of small issues which I would like to solve:

1. When a page loads, the tabbed widget on top of the sidebar expands and then collapses to its normal size as the page loads. Is there a way to stop this from occuring?

2. I styled my the tabbed widgets from the style.css sheet that came with the widget as opposed to the css orerride feature. However, the 'recent comments' in my theme is styled differently from other widgets but is now using the same styles. Is there a way in the style.css source file to give the recent comments there own specific styling?

Thankyou
ckd

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:46:13 -0000

You can do that by providing a negative margin-top value that is greater than the height of the tabs in the first box which is titled Amend the position of the tabs. i.e. margin-top:-80px;

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:39:28 -0000

Chris, on the whole it should Work with 2.7. I have just tested it on a clean install, using the default theme and it was OK.

The only problem I found was that some of the widgets, the search widget for example, do not use the template html that the sidebar gives it; i.e. it ignores the before widget, before title, and after widget settings and therefore will break the tabbed interface.

Is you use firebug or view source and find the html for the widgets, if any of them don't have an h3 with the title in followed by a div tag with the class tab-content then that widget will stop the plugin working.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

ckd — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:51:07 -0000

Great plugin!

I have one small problem with styling the CSS. I am trying to separte the tabs from the text area ie want to have about a 10px gap between the tab title area and the text area below. However, I am unable to achieve this using the css overide panel in admin. So the tabs are currently overlapping the text area. I am guessing that they are within a div and that I need to put the tabs outside the div to create the margin. Just not sure whether I should be looking for this in the php file or the css?

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

chris — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:46:00 -0000

I used to use this great sidebar widget with K2 and an older version of WP, but recently upgraded to WP 2.7 and know can't get it to work. Any thoughts or fixes?

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:37:41 -0000

Thank you for making the fix. I look forward to trying out your replacement plugin.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

baron — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:09:34 -0000

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:48:00 -0000

Thaya,

Thanks for that note. I did know about that, I fixed it in version 0.6, but I made a lot of other changes so eventually decided not to release it. I should have made the bug-fixes separately.

I will upload a new version.

Andrew

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Thaya Kareeson — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:54:40 -0000

Hi Andrew, I previously commented that I had an issue with CSS styles going from version 0.4.2 -> 5.1.0 having multiple instances of "fun with sidebar tabs" active. You did not see my tabs messed up when you visited my site because I had reverted to 0.4.2 to keep it working.

After 2 version releases, I was still seeing the same issue so I finally found the time to debug it myself. I've finally figured out what was wrong with the plugin. The following line:

$num_val = ( $i == 1 ) ? '1.first' : '1';

needs to be changed to:

$num_val = ( $i == 1 ) ? '1.first' : $i;

If you do not change it, the CSS generated will never generate for plugin instances 2,3,4,etc. but will always keep override the first instance.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:50:28 -0000

Caprica,

I have never seen this before but a Google search has netted me the following which attributes it to using PHP4:

http://lesterchan.net/wordp...

I think the plugin that the error is being generated from is one of Lester Chan's so this page is pretty relevent.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Caprica — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:23:48 -0000

Hi,

I keep on getting the error" "Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! ..."

I remember seeing a fix for this before, but I cant seem to find it.

Where can I find the fix?

thanks

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Andrew Rickmann — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:20:56 -0000

Thomas,

You haven't made a mistake. I have found a bug in the plugin.

I am working on a version at the moment that isn't quite ready for release but you can correct the bug yourself quite easily.

If you open the plugin file called fun_with_sidebar_tabs.php and replace the line that reads:

$num_val = ( $i == 1 ) ? '1.first' : 1;

with:

$num_val = ( $i == 1 ) ? '1.first' : $i;

That should resolve the error.

Re: Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Thomas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:35:33 -0000

Hi Andrew,

It is a great plug in! I have a problem if I add a 2nd sidebar tab. I changed the style like the 1st but the sidebar tab is shown in the standard style... What could be my mistake?

Best regards

Thomas