Comments on: Widgetize Anything

By: Quinton

Quinton — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:23:16 +0000

Fantastic! I was shuddering at the thought of replacing ProgressFly, my favorite Wordpress plugin, until I found your widget. You made my day (actually month!)

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:10:34 +0000

I had heard of that, but never needed it. I just tried it, though, and it works great. 27 5-star ratings can’t be wrong!

My solution to the 2.8.2 problem would just be to do what the PHP Code Widget already does, so I don’t see much point. I recommend switching to that one.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:54:43 +0000

Thanks so much, Erik. That was fast! I love your plugin; it’s become one of the staples of any and all blogs I set up.

And yes, I’m totally with you: Can’t understand why WP hasn’t allowed the ability to add php into the default text widgets.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried this plugin?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:42:59 +0000

Thanks, Ted. I have noticed this, but didn’t know about that change in functionality. The ability to add multiple copies of the same widget was what made this plugin so difficult to write in the first place. I keep hoping that WP will just adopt allowing PHP into their text widgets. It wouldn’t be that hard…

I’ll see what I can do.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:39:32 +0000

It looks like 2.8.2 breaks this plugin. Could be because of the new widget functionality (the ability to add multiple versions of the same widget). Any ideas how to adapt the plugin to work with the new version of WP?

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:16:54 +0000

Success BlogNet is a WordPress MU. Is this plugin compatible with MU?

Everything I have been reading here is sounding quite positive and I look forward to your reply

Best Regards,

By: gestroud

gestroud — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:15:40 +0000

My apologies. I used widgetize anything for 4 different plugins on a few different sites – finally narrowed it down to one plugin that completely wrecked Widgetize Anything’s functionality with WordPress 2.7. After removing the suspect plugin, Widgetize Anything works fine. Your plugin remains as great as ever.

By: eBusiness

eBusiness — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:29:13 +0000

Hi, Erik. Thanks for the reply.

I don’t know what happened, but today I reinstalled the plugin and it works! And now my magazine is well on the way to being perfect!

Thanks!

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:08:02 +0000

I haven’t seen any behavior like that, eBiz. I suspect that your php code probably has a quote, either single or double, that is conflicting with 2.7’s javascript for widget editing. I’m not sure what to tell you. Maybe you can find and fix the php code in the database directly with phpmyadmin or something?

By: eBusiness

eBusiness — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:49:12 +0000

I like this plugin, but:

I have a problem with this plugin and WordPress 2.7. I’ve entered php code into the widgetize anything widget in my sidebar, and now when I reload the sidebar in the admin to change the code, I’m being shown a string of php code and no option to edit the contents of the sidebar.

Any ideas?