Error cloning WP widgets

Hi jasoncfoster,

Is the widget you’re trying to clone provided by a specific plugin or theme I could test? I agree with your test that the widget-logic plugin is not likely at fault.

Thanks for the quick response and sorry for late reply…

It was a custom widget created as a custom plugin. It’s very possible that the plugin was not constructed correctly which could wreak all sorts of havoc on your code.

Go ahead and close this as we’ve determined we really want to start from scratch on those widgets instead of carrying over any original custom stuff.

I just ran into the same problem. I think it concerns widgets registered without a base id.

Nope, adding a base id didn’t help either.

Here’s my code:

https://pastebin.com/KuWgydmJ

Hi tkaufmann,
I haven’t tested your code, but looking at it I could see some issues. Your widget relies on contextual information about the current post being viewed. global $post; I recommend you make sure the post you have accessed is of a specific type.

For example, if you were only showing it on posts or pages:

public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
        error_log("fofo");
        global $post;

        if ( isset( $post->post_type ) && $post->post_type == 'post' || $post->post_type == 'page') {
          $parent_page = jw_linkcat_get_top_parent_page_id($post->ID);

          // ...

          wp_list_bookmarks('category_name=' . $rightColAreaName . '&categorize=0&orderby=rating&title_li=' . $rightColHeadline);
       }
    }

Otherwise, you may not have a valid context for all your custom functions, and that could cause errors. For example, if you were to preview that widget on the widget edit screen, the global $post context would be the widget you are currently editing.

I don’t know if that will solve your problem, but let me know if it doesn’t and I’ll try your code.

Thanks,
Jonathan