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Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andrew Rickmann — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:37:41 -0000

Can you paste the entire error in?

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:04:36 -0000

I'm getting the Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '(' in error too.

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andrew Rickmann — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:34:26 -0000

I wouldn't recommend bundling plugins in with themes. Technically it is fine, but if the plugin is updated to cope with a new version of WordPress anyone using the theme would be stuck.

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Bret Holstein — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:05:35 -0000

I completely agree with your rationale for this plugin. It would make modifying themes and reusing components in different themes a whole lot easier if the theme widgets could be isolated into their own files.

Is there any reason why this couldn't be adapted to the functions.php file that comes with a theme? I'm not quite sure how it might be accomplished in practice but I would love to use the features of the plugin without requiring the users of my theme to load the plugin.

Any pointers on where to begin?

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andrew Rickmann — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:53:54 -0000

Kevin, that sounds like you are running on PHP 4. I haven't included PHP4 support in this plugin; although, I don't think there is anything in it that wouldn't run on PHP4 except the constructor itself.

If you amend public function __construct(){

to read

function fw_theme_plugins() {

then that might work. I haven't tested it though.

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Kevin Sandridge — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:37:06 -0000

Hi - any reason this plugin might not work with WP 2.7? Getting the following error code when I try to activate it:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /mnt/local/home/fmblogger/floridamortgageblogger.com/... on line 31

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Jazzthedog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:58:13 -0000

Great plugin!

It's a great way of collecting your favorite snippets of code you would normally use and all of a sudden..it's a widget!

A couple of minor issues.

1. I tested this out within a 'child' theme and I had to copy the php file to the 'parent' theme to get it to show up in the GUI.

2. After adding it to the widget section , I could not click on edit to remove it. I had to deactivate the plug.

I can imagine after adding many of these widgets, with the current GUI implementation of widgets in WP 2.7 will become quite painful. Perhaps WP 2.8 will make it better.

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andrew Rickmann — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:52:37 -0000

Monika,

Trackbacks are a nice idea, but in practice I got so much spam and so many one line links that it wasn't worth it.

I am happy for you to add your link in any comments here, especially when you are promoting something I have done :-)

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Monika — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:34:46 -0000

oh my dear Andrew

it sounds that I'm silly but I'm only confus this day because it is monday, since many years Murphey is the best guest at monday :(

... ok I try to write ... Hi best coder ... (thats better than 2time the false name )

ok you do not accept pings and trackbacks - so there is no chance to create a good network -
I have sent a ping not a trackback ;)

thanks for your answer Andrew ;)

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andrew Rickmann — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:25:50 -0000

Actually, It's Andrew. And the reason is that I've turned off trackbacks because, in the whole, people don't see the value in them.

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Monika — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:20:21 -0000

oh Ryan .. your name is Ryan not Rick ...your name is Ryan not Rick and I hope you will delete this ..
it is monday ..sorry :(

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Monika — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:05:05 -0000

Hi Rick - I know this comment is offtopic but I don't know where I can ask...

I've sent a ping but I can't see it? Why? Is this the *blog comments powered by.*.... ?

kindly regards
Monika

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Andrew Rickmann — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:24:39 -0000

Ryan, come back and let me know if you do. I would love to see what this could do.

Re: Fun with Theme Widgets

Ryan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:10:52 -0000

Thanks Andrew :)

I might adapt this for a new theme I'm creating.