page template…

Just to add, this is also happening similarly with the regular main blog page, which I just put into action with a slight mod to it’s theme blog.php, so as to list posts from only one category, I didn’t even have it up when I wrote the above…

It also seems that when I try to make a widget active on that page and its same category of posts only, setting all to “no” then excepting those pages, it still shows up on the other pages, while it’s not showing on the selected pages…

Driving me nuts, maybe you can tell, it’s so confusing to try to figure out some pattern or linkage…

When it is left static it shows fine on all pages including the ones I’m trying to place the widget only.on… It is the same problem with any widget as well, not just the one I am presently trying to place, a posts widget that shows post selectively by category… In fact Dynamic Widgets is doing fine with placing it on just one the three pages mentioned below, se with a different category… And like I mentioned, it has same problem with other widgets, ones that are being placed selectively fine on default template pages……

All the widgets are showing selectively fine otherwise, with different sets on each of three default page template pages with sidebars … And only the main sidebar is in use…

I’m repeating myself I think, trying to give as much detail and info as I can… To tired to edit it… ??

I’ve used this on another site extensively, using the same theme, and no problems…

I’m not quite sure what your problem exactly is. It looks like you’re having an issue with page templates not being recognized by DW? Do the new templates show up in the list in DW?

Yes, pages with the new templates are recognized by DW… And I I think in the confusion of my message above it’s clear that I’m not clear what the problem exactly is… I’d been hours trying to figure it out when I wrote that…

So, maybe more simply said, I cannot get a widget to show in the sidebars of pages set to a new template, once the widget is made dynamic… A static widget does show up…

In other words as soon as a widget is made dynamic the problem appears. This whole issue has begun with the new templates, which I’ve run by my theme maker who says they are fine…

I’ve used Dynamic widgets a good bit on this site while setting it up with no problems, until these new templates… I’ve also used it on another site a whole heck of a lot, that has no new templates and is using the same theme, and no problems like this…

I’ll now add that on this new site I’ve switched over to using the conditional widgets plugin to set where sidebar widgets appear, and it is having no problems at all doing it, pages with new templates and all… It is all behaving perfectly…

I want to be helpful if I can because I’ve really been appreciating your plugin a lot for a while…

Kind Regards.

Conditional Widgets is using another approach for showing and hiding widgets.

Every now and then I come across this that DW ‘refuse’ to follow the rules, even in OLD method. OLD is quite a rudimentary way of hiding widgets, but most of the time the solution when the normal method (FILTER) is not doing what it suppose to do. So, that’s something to try out if you like. Unfortunately it’s not a 100% guarentee.

Another try is to make sure the template is doing a wp_reset_query() before the sidebar is called.

Thanks for getting back so quickly… I think I am understanding, and I might play with this here at some point… In the meantime I will mark this as resolved…