Use is Widget?

Hi John,

This is something that’s never been considered since (surprisingly) no one has ever requested this functionality.

I think this sounds like a useful configuration so it’s now on the TODO list. Can’t tell you when this would actually show up — depends on when I find some time — but it’ll come at some point ??

-Dan

Dan,
Thanks for the reply. I’m relieved that it wasn’t an obvious feature and I missed it. Also glad that it’s in the to-do list.
Here is the kluge that I’ve come up with using CSS to style. It’s nowhere near as flexible as a solution that the plugin would offer but it will serve for a while. Changing the documents will be messy if needed and of course I have to have many such widgets with page visibility in play to filter results. Still… it works for now. Thanks again. jc

<div class="widget-forms">
    <a href="https://site-name/wp-content/uploads/document-1.pdf" target="_blank">
        <figure>
            <img src="https://site-name/wp-content/uploads/pdf-icon.png" width="48px" height="48px" />
            <figcaption class="figcaption-widget">Document 1 Name</figcaption>
        </figure>
    </a>
	<br>
    <a href="https://site-name/wp-content/uploads/document-2.pdf" target="_blank">
        <figure>
             <img src="https://site-name/wp-content/uploads/pdf-icon.png" width="48px" height="48px"/>
            <figcaption class="figcaption-widget">Document 2 Name</figcaption>
        </figure>
    </a>
</div>

Hi John!

Despite absence of native support for widgets in DG out of the box, there is a quick hack for now to enable it ??
You should include given below string to Your active WordPress theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
This will allow usage of shortcodes (including dg) in widgets ??
Please note: use of default [dg] (without specifying id or ids property) will result in displaying respective attachments for each requested post.

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• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by demur.