PHP not working in sidebar

  • Resolved fishgun

    (@fishgun)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve tried various php sidebar widget plugins (exec-php, Samsarin PHP etc) and none of them seem to want to execute the PHP code.

    I’ve had these plugins working, with the code I want to use, on a copy of my wordpress site on a different server.

    I’ve checked the php code on it’s own in Safari and Firefox and it works fine.

    Any ideas?

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  • Open the sidebar file and put the PHP directly in there, avoiding the need to use one of those plugins?

    Thread Starter fishgun

    (@fishgun)

    Thanks for the response Mark.

    That would normally be my first workaround, but my current site is using the Thesis theme, which doesn’t have a sidebar.php file, or a header.php even.

    I’ve subsequently solved the error, which was a result of the new server having PHP5 set to disable the include function for remote files – a very useful security measure but had me banging my head against the wall for several hours!

    This blog post gives an explanation and a couple of workarounds, if anyone else needs help with this issue.

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