Widgets on pages question

  • Hi,

    I am very excited to have found Todd Halfpenny’s code for widgets on pages. I found I could get it to work on the Twenty Ten theme but when I tried to use it on my own very basic theme I could only get it to work on the sidebar.

    Can anyone advise me please what I am missing: I am getting text appearing instead of the widget e.g. when I try to insert a calendar in the main part of my page using Todd’s code, all I get is ” [widgets_on_pages id=”Calendar”]” appearing on the page. As I said it works beautifully in Twenty Ten and as I am pretty new to WordPress I expect there is something basic I am missing.

    Can anyone suggest what it might be?
    Thanks

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  • Hey bdsr,

    This seems strange… could you check that there are no <pre> tags around the outputed text (use view source in the browser)?

    Thread Starter bdsr

    (@bdsr)

    Hi Todd,

    Yes, when I check the source code in the browser it shows ‘p’ tags. But how do I remove them please?

    Thank you

    Brenda

    This would have happened because of the copy and paste… delete it and then use the ‘paste as plain text’ or just type the shortcode by hand.

    Oh, and if you like the widget then it would be great if you could rate it also.

    Thread Starter bdsr

    (@bdsr)

    Thanks Todd. I will go in and rate the widget as well.

    Cheers

    Brenda

    That would be super great bdsr, thanks!

    Thread Starter bdsr

    (@bdsr)

    Todd,

    I went looking for how to rate it but couldn’t find it. What do I do?

    Also, can I bother you with another widget question please? Once I have a text widget working I thought I could add code to create an effect that I want. I have tried adding the following to a text widget:

    <img src=””wp-content/themes/Brendas template/images/logosml.jpg”/>
    but absolutely nothing is showing up. The specified image is definitely in the images folder – I have checked.

    Any advice you could give would be much appreciated. Now I have discovered widgets I would like to use them extensively if I can control what they do and how they look!

    Thanks again.

    Brenda

    Thread Starter bdsr

    (@bdsr)

    Todd,

    I have worked out what I was doing wrong and now have the image showing up. However I want to do a rollover on the image and have included the following in the widget code:

    <img src=”wp-content/themes/twentyten child/images/logosml.jpg” id=”btn1″

    onMouseOver=”document.getElementById(‘btn1′).src = “wp-content/themes/twentyten child/images/button_red.gif’;”
    onMouseOut=”document.getElementById(‘btn1′).src = “wp-content/themes/twentyten child/images/logosml.jpg’;” />

    But there is no action when I place my cursor on the original image. Should this sort of code work in a widget?

    Thanks once again.

    Ah well done on fixing the initial image issue. I have to be honest and say I’ve not looked at things like this before, sorry. I don’t see why the code should not work since the JS is all client side. Do you have javascript enabled on your browser?

    For the rating you can do this on this page by voting against the stars on the right.

    Thread Starter bdsr

    (@bdsr)

    Hi Todd,

    I have done the rating.

    Yes I have javascript enabled some am baffled.

    yieldhog

    (@yieldhog)

    Hi Todd

    I’d like very much to use widgets on pages, but it refuses to display the widget. I’m using WP 3.05 with an ithemes premium theme. Looking at the source code for this sample page, widgets on pages seems to be inserted, but it only contains a blank list

      https://www.yieldhog.com/2011/01/yellow-world/

      Any suggestions? Your help is greatly appreciated!

      yieldhog

      (@yieldhog)

      Hi Todd

      Thanks, managed to fix the problem!

      Cheers

      toddhalfpenny

      (@toddhalfpenny)

      Hey Yieldhog, great news you sorted it… what was causing the widgets not to show?
      Todd

      yieldhog

      (@yieldhog)

      Hi Todd

      Eh actually i didn’t fix it – i replaced it with another plugins that also allows inline widgets. It was driving me nuts after i spent almost a day trying to get it to work . . . i would guess its not my wordpress version (3.05) version that was blocking it, since bdsr above was using a late (3.04) version as well. Could well be my premium theme (iThemes’ Ionic child theme of Builder) that was blocking it).

      But thanks for your help anyway!

      Y.H.

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