mpmchugh

This works:

https://gist.github.com/kraftbj/c04ea9f0861eabc79065

This works:

https://gist.github.com/kraftbj/c04ea9f0861eabc79065

@jmaraujo did you find a solution to limiting the time frame of related posts shown?

Thanks,
Michael

For some reason my initial searches for a solution yielded nothing, but just found a few options to look into.

Nevermind. The couple functions I found no longer work.

Anyone have a suggestion?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by mpmchugh.

Odd. I’d posted a reply here yesterday that said it was waiting moderation about 0.5.1. breaking my Widgets page — nothing showed except the default Sidebar, and it was not clickable. Also it disabled the WordPress admin bar on all my single Blog posts page, and the trigger widget wouldn’t show.

Not sure what happened to that message, but I’ll give this 0.5.2 a try.

-Michael

Initially when I updated, I was blocked from accessing the settings:

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAIuN_-sq6JCXJ_ganbBSa8Me1Wps63M8w0

Then after reloading the plugins page, the plugin deactivated itself, so I deleted and re-installed it.

I was able to make a sidebar, but all kinds of other weird things happened:

Admin bar disappeared on Blog pages
The widget would not show at all
Then my widgets page broke and all I aw was a single “Sidebar” item but could not open it. All the Theme and Off-Canvases own sidebar were missing.

I had to disable it for the time being, as it’s too unstable, or incompatible or something.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by mpmchugh.

Okay. I’ll wait for the update to do anything else.

Thanks.

So, I re-created it, and set the color on the sidebar itself. That worked.

What I’d done earlier was set the color on the main settings tab. I did that again, and again the sidebar was deleted again.

Not sure what the intent is with the two color settings. Is one just a default, ad you can override it on each sidebar?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by mpmchugh.

New wrinkle…

I added a widget trigger, and noticed the sidebar background was black, even though it was set to default, which says it’s #ffffff.

So, I set it to “Color” and set the color to white. Upon saving, the sidebar I’d created was deleted. It’s totally gone now.

That’s a problem.

Will the dev version I installed know to update to the release version, or do I need to do that manually?

Okay. Thanks for the info. I’ll figure something out.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by mpmchugh.

Okay. I installed the dev version and it seems to be working now as expected as far as saving and naming sidebars, etc., but not sure how to actually trigger a sidebar at all.

Is there no built in trigger such as hamburger menu icon that opens the sidebar? The installation instructions don’t seem very clear about that or even address it at all. The “Simple Theme Setup” doesn’t seem to add anything in terms of displaying an actual trigger.

Also, are there any settings for which pages the sidebar would appear on, or is it just global by default, and one would have to affect it via php — i.e. only invoke the( website before and after on single post pages for instance) — or use CSS to hide it where it’s not wanted?

I tried the new code, though frankly, not being familiar with Git, and there not being a coherent plugin download for it, I’m not sure of I installed it correctly.

That said, it didn’t seem to fix the issue. Still can’t rename or properly save sidebars like before.

If you have a link to an actual installable ZIP of the plugin I can try again.

Sorry. Been focused on other projects for a few days. I’ll give it a try later today.

Thanks, Jennifer. That did the trick. ??

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by mpmchugh.

Didn’t do anything unusual. Just installed it and went to the Settings page. First tried to click on the link in the top box to add a sidebar, but got an access error.

Then went to the sidebars tab and tried to add there, but ran into the saving issues I mentioned.

There’s quite a few plugins active for a variety of reasons, so it could very we be a conflict, but I’m not seeing any console errors. If any present known conflicts, please let me know. Otherwise it’ll be tricky to track down. Here’s the list…

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAJ0ejn51w9KYLlJM7xz1A8iSdm-6BaAwzQ

I did deactivate one plugin that was directly sidebar/widget related, Widget Alias, as it wasn’t being used.

The other two I’m using that are sidebar/widget related are Google Maps Widget PRO, and Automatic Jetpack’s sidebar/widget enhancements.

Also, I am using the Divi theme, which has it’s own facility for adding custom sidebars built in, if that might be the conflict.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by mpmchugh.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by mpmchugh.