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Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

boots — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:07:24 -0000

Hi

Just came across this Beta of the next generation of Fun with Tabs. Very nice and it works in Safari and Chrome. Sa-weet.

Would anyone be willing to share their non-graphical CSS-only FWS setup configuration as an export ? I'm looking for a nice box baseline much like the original FWT. I seem to be chasing my tail de-constructing the default template without the png's.

Also, I have a suckerfish menu that drops down over my FWS container but parts of the FWS remain in foreground. Looks like I'll need to apply some zindex's to FWS elements. Does anyone have any tips to zindex FWS and/or have a config setup with zindex's they'd be willing to share as an export?

Thanks in advance.

Boots

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Sumu — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:39:44 -0000

Same over here: Don't find the widget listed. Using 2.7 on a MySQL5.0

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:56:43 -0000

Chris, the folder in the ZIP file has been named incorrectly and that would have stopped it working. I will upload a new version. All you need to do though is change the folder name to fun-with-widget-structures

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

chris — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:40:47 -0000

Is this working with with 2.7 yet? It's not on my end, but that may be user error. ;)

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:54:35 -0000

Lilia, I haven't been able replicate the problem.

The only thing I can think of that would cause it would be if you were running PHP4. This plugin will only work on PHP5.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Lilia — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:07:11 -0000

Hi, I've tried for 4 times enable and disable the plugin from wp.
But widget structure still doesn't appear in design-widgets

I'm using wp2.6.3.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

erin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:50:02 -0000

You're right, it turns out that it has never worked right in IE7. So I upgraded to the latest version, and now it doesn't work in FF3 on a Mac. In IE7 all the widget content within the tabbed sidebar was being displayed, one on top of the other. I don't know if it's working in IE7 since upgrading to the last version of the plugin, but I do know that now in Firefox all the widgets are displayed as if they weren't in the tabbed sidebar at all. It does work in Safari though, but I noticed that some of the styling was thrown off by the upgrade to the latest version of your plugin. It's all just so weird. I think it might be best to just give up on getting it to work at all at this point. Seeing as you've retired the plugin!

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:58:27 -0000

Erin, I've not had any reports of problems in 2.6, I ran the old plugin myself on 2.6 until I switched themes and had no problems. Can you be more specific about the problem?

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

erin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:34:22 -0000

I had a site running the sidebar tabs ap with WP 2.5 and everything was working great. Then the site admin upgraded to WP2.6 and now it's a total mess in IE7. Do you recommend simply downgrading to 2.5? I'm can't use a plugin that's still in beta for this site because it's too big of a gamble, it being so highly trafficked. What do you recommend? Have you heard of any other problems with your wonderful, but not retired ap and WP 2.6 not playing nice?

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:18:04 -0000

Oh, WordPress converts the quotes to fancy quotes so don't copy and paste it.

The only bit that matters is

'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:16:54 -0000

Craig, That is indeed the problem.

The plugin is outputting a relative URL instead of a absolute one.

If you open fun_with_widget_structures.php and find the function add_css.

Then change the line that reads:
echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-content/plugins/fun-with-widget-structures/css/style.php" type="text/css" media="screen" />';

to

echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/wp-content/plugins/fun-with-widget-structures/css/style.php" type="text/css" media="screen" />';

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Craig — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:27:38 -0000

Well, not sure that makes sense. The homepage works fine, the sidebar.php is using the same code as sidebar_home.php.

Also, when I say it isn't finding the css, it is picking up styling from the Theme's css file, but not from the plugin's. The pages that the sidebar are working on are displaying fine, no 404's.

You can take a look ... http://inconwo.com/arealic/transportation/

Thanks for the help.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:12:14 -0000

Craig, If it isn't showing any CSS in FB that usually means that WordPress is returning a 404 page instead of the file, meaning something is pointing to the wrong place.

Kevin, these are the sorts of problems I am having with the widget system and so far I haven't been able to figure out what is going on. It is severe enough to put in doubt whether this ever gets released.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

VizionQuest — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:34:58 -0000

Hey Andrew,
I recently deactivated the plugin because it wasn't displaying properly with my CSS and when I did so I had some widgets allocated to some of the structures. When I came back after the deactivation, the widgets that were assigned to the structures were no longer there. I reactived the plugin and the reappeared but my widgets were stripped from the sidebar and I had to re-add them again.

I've deactivated the plugin for now. I still think it has some great potential. I am following these comments, so please post in here when it's ready to roll and I'll be back for the next version. Thanks!

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Craig — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:24:41 -0000

When I try to look at the style.php code it is now showing anything (in firebug), but does if on the homepage.

Checked the header code and it is definitely loading it from the plugin directory.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Craig — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:12:25 -0000

I installed on a client site, but am having a problem... on homepage it works fine, but on all other pages the tabbers are missing.

Homepage is using sidebar_home.php.

All other pages use sidebar.php.

Both files have the exact same code in them.

I also, used your address bar javascript, both homepage and other pages have the same divs, which is the same thing I see in firebug.

Using FB, I can see that the pages it does not work on are not using/finding the defined css.

Any ideas?

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:42:30 -0000

Thanks Kevin, I want to solve the widgets problems before I add it.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

VizionQuest — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:30:41 -0000

I think it's very worth your while. I certainly appreciate it. When do you plan to add it to the WP repository?

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:48:36 -0000

Kevin, writing this plugin is a constant fight with the widget system that I haven't won yet.

The add widget isn't supposed to have a number on it, i.e. it should be generic so the number is only added after you save. also the other widgets are not supposed to exist once removed from the sidebar but changing the code to make that work pretty much turns off the whole widget system.

I still have some way to go, but thanks for persevering.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

VizionQuest — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:37:27 -0000

Looks like Widget Structures 2 through 6 were being held in the "Show Unused Widgets" and weren't displaying in "Show All Widgets" under "Available Widget" list at /wp-admin/widgets.php

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

VizionQuest — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:27:12 -0000

Every time I add "Widget Structure 1" to my sidebar and save it, it becomes "Widget Structure 2 and so on. I created 6 Widget Structures but can't access them since the only one displayed in the left hand column of wp-admin/widgets.php is "Widget Structure 1". Any ideas why this is happening?

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Martin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:55:06 -0000

Thanks Andrew! I was looking for a way without changing too much code in the theme files (updates...), but it seems there is no way around.

Anyways: unfortunately widget structures kills the feature gallery of the Options theme (the "slideshow" with images and excerpts of featured articles), so I had to deactivate it. Have to find out what causes the trouble.

Cheers - will definitely play some more with your plugin! Has great potential!

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:46 -0000

I'll be honest Martin and say that I just don't know. I imagine it would be possible to restrict the width to 160px and throw two in but I don't think it could be done with a single sidebar.

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

Martin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:07:01 -0000

Hi!
- looks exactly like the plug I was hunting for ;-)

Just one thing: is it possible to "abuse" it to look like two smaller sidebars inside part of a wide sidebar?

I am using the "Options" theme, which has a big fat 350px sidebar, and I would love to define a widget structure for the homepage sidebar, that basically looks like 2 sidebars with 160 px and stuff in some of the more narrow widgets in there...

Thanks for your help and this plugin!
Cheers
Martin

Re: Fun with Widget Structures: 0.1 beta

arickmann — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:47:28 -0000

Thus plugin will search the theme folder for a template though, so if a theme author wanted to write a template for this plugin and include it then it would be available to import.