Limit side bar to X amount of sponsors?

Hi and thanks for the kind comments.

We’ve not had anyone ask for this before, so we wouldn’t be considering this as an update unfortunately.

The plugin is free and GPL so you would certainly be free to customize the plugin how you would need it.

Thanks so much for the great plugin!

I too wanted to limit the number of sponsors shown in the widget and though I normally advocate against ‘hacking’ plugins you can control the number of sponsors shown by modifying the queries found around line 100 in cr3ativ-sponsor/includes/sponsor-widget.php. Look for ‘posts_per_page’ => 999999 and change that to the desired number. It will of course effect all outputs.

Just remember any future plugin updates will wipe out this modification so you will want to document this change somewhere and/or not update the plugin (bad idea).

I was looking for this as well. Thanks FatLabllc for the “hack”! I too don’t like having to do it this way either given I’ll have to remember to redo it with updates. Hopefully the option will soon be given in the widget config itself to do this.

Thanks FatLabllc! Good suggestion and I’ve got it marked down so it will be in the next update!

The new update with this change isn’t working quiet right. It works perfectly for the sidebar widget. Problem is, it’s being applying to a full page implemented with the shortcake as well. I want a full page with all sponsors but for the widget to be a limited number.

Dang it….it’s even worse. I removed the widget sponsor limit that I had set (which was 3) and the full page instantiated by the shortcode of [sponsor_level columns=”2″ orderby=”rand” image=”yes” title=”no” link=”yes” bio=”no”] is still only showing 3 sponsors!

If you updated the plugin, the shortcode should read something like this:

[sponsor_level category=”your-category-slug” columns=”2″ orderby=”rand” image=”yes” title=”no” link=”yes” bio=”no” show=”number”]