[Plugin: SpeakUp! Email Petitions] Use the entire petition in a widget

got it!

you just need to add this in the functions.php file:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

Can’t figure out how to install this–no “install now” button appeared and I am lame about putting code in; have no idea where the wp/directory file is.

Any advice? I have the folder on the desktop; just don’t know how to find it. joinned the forum ecdause one online source said you had to get it thru “plugins’ though it’s called a widget but you couldn’t find it under widgets, so it was under plugins, but it just downloaded the folder I’d already downloaded direct from SpeakUp Petitions, and no automatic installer kicked in.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

The easiest way to install the plugin is to log in to your site’s WordPress admin panel and go to the “Plugins” page. Then click the “Add New” link at the top of that page.

You will see a text field with a button labelled “Search Plugins”. Now type speakup into the field and click the button. A listing for the petition plugin should now display with a link labelled “Install Now”. Go ahead and click that link, and then on the resulting page, click the “Activate Plugin” link.

Now you will be able to create petitions using the “Add New” link found under the “Email Petitions” menu in the sidebar. Once, you’ve created a petition, you will be able to add it to your site as a widget from the Widget screen.

Hi Kreg, Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I don’t know where my site’s WordPress admin panel is. I thought I had found it through the dashboard but I guess that didn’t work because somehow I ended up in the WordPress forum, so I thought I had to create a separate account there, becauase my regular password didn’t work. I did that, stumbled to a “Plugins” section, found the SpeakUp plugin, downloaded it (but I’d already done that and tried to install it and could’t).

There it sits on my desktop, and I have no idea what to do with it. I’ve read seven or eight pages online with the same question but since I don’t know where the admin panel is, I’m stumped.
I did have the patmaginnis.com/wordpress part deleted by having the original site owner map the outside domain patmaginnis.com to the WordPress site, but I have no idea where the cpanel is or what I should look for when and if I do happen upon it.

Thanks anyway. Ironically, I’m creating this site for Pat and am a tech editor for software, and I still can’t figure this out! DOH!

tshcak,

If you are seeing the Dashboard, then you are have already logged in to the admin panel. We’re just using different terminology (logging onto the Dashboard = logging onto the Admin Panel).

From the Dashboard, find the “Plugins” menu link in the sidebar. Clicking this will take you to the Plugins page where you can follow my instructions above.

Hi, and thanks for your patience! I hate confusing terminology: I thought that because we’d mapped the previous domain, “admin panel”meant the cPanel of the host!

But when I go here in the Dashboard, I see no Plugins menu in the sidebar. There
s home, store, posts, media, links, pages, comments, feedback, polls, ratings, appearance, users, tools and settings, but I couldn’t find any plugins section.

However, online search tells me WordPress doesn’t work with plugins, and calls the SpeakUp petition widget I want a widget, not a plugin. That just confuses me further, as I can’t seem to get it up anywhere, since I can’t find the Plugins menu link.

Sorry for the denseness, and thanks for your efforts anyway! I appreciate it.

It sounds like your website is one of the free blog sites hosted by wordpress.com. If so, you can’t install plugins and would be unable to use the SpeakUp! Email Petitions plugin/widget. You will need to have a self-hosted WordPress site in order to use plugins.

So by “self-hosted” do you mean one that I pay to have my own domain imposed on it, as I did with patmaginnis.com?

I have paid extra to map this URL to the wordpress (to replace patmaginnis.wordpress.com) but even on that one, I don’t see a Plug-ins menu. Any more info before I just give it up?

Thanks again for your exquisite patience!

I just realized I’m at wordpress.com. not .org — does that matter?

I can’t believe sticking a little widget on is so darn impossible! arrgh!

Yes. These forums are for self-hosted WordPress sites only. Please try asking your question on https://en.forums.wordpress.com/