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Posted 16 October 2010 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets development version

Thanks to a comment STB made I found out that the development version of Dynamic Widgets hosted at wordpress.org is not updated with the latest revisions. It looks like it’s stuck within a revision I uploaded about a month ago. So, for the time being, I’ll be hosting the current latest revison 300505 myself and probably some following revisions. The latest development version of Dynamic Widgets can always be found via the development version link in the sidebar.

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Posted 10 September 2010 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets 1.3.5

I’ve just released version 1.3.5 of Dynamic Widgets. In this version the following has been changed:

  • Added support for themes which use the WP function is_active_sidebar() when the method is set to FILTER (default). 1
  • Bugfix by removing a possible unnecessary loop for dynamic widget options.

[1] Starting with this version, Dynamic Widgets is using a new method for removing widgets from the sidebar(s). This new method, called FILTER, is more in line with the way WordPress provides access for plugins to it’s system. However this method comes with a downside. Due to it’s nature it might slow down the process of removing widgets when you have and use many sidebars. For this, there is the OLD method. The OLD method uses the previous method before version 1.3.5. Downside of that method is that it may leave you behind with a visible empty sidebar. There is a way to prevent this, but for that you have to have some PHP programming knowledge. Ask me for an example script if you need it. If you are using the standard WP Twenty Ten theme, you probably want to have a look at the Twenty Ten Weaver theme. Bruce from WP Weaver fixed the empty sidebar with the help of this example script. So you don’t need to fix it yourself.

You can switch to the OLD method by clicking on the ‘Advanced >’ link in the Dynamic Widgets overview page and checking ‘Use OLD method’.

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Posted 21 July 2010 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets 1.3.3

I’ve just made version 1.3.3 of Dynamic Widgets available for download. In this new release the following has been added:

  • Added an internal filter when checking for widget options to make the plugin faster. (1.3.2)
  • Added Custom Post Types support for WordPress 3.0.
  • Added WPML support for static pages, category pages, category in single posts and custom post types.
  • Bugfix for not resetting checked count when enabling individual posts with authors and/or category set.



UPDATE: As a follow up on the comment from Michael I have released version 1.3.4 with a fix for the minor flaw.

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Posted 20 June 2010 in Dynamic Widgets, WordPress by Jacco

WordPress 3.0

Recently WordPress 3.0 has been released. I’ve ran a quick test with the latest version of Dynmaic Widgets (1.3) and did not find any problem. So it seems this new WordPress release does not affect the working of Dynamic Widgets.

If you find any problems with Dynamic Widgets 1.3 in combination with WordPress 3.0, please let me know.

Posted 17 May 2010 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets 1.3

A new major version of the Dynamic Widgets plugin has just been released: Version 1.3 is now available for download. Compared to the previous official release the following has been added and fixed:

  • Added support for dates functionality: You can now show a widget starting on a specific date, stop showing it on a specific date or show only during a specific date range.
  • Bugfix for user role detection when using Simple:Press Forum plugin.
  • Bugfix for nasty PHP warning “Cannot use a scalar value as an array”.

Because of the addition of the dates functionality the database needs to be upgraded. You’re advised to make a backup of your WordPress database first. When upgrading, be sure -like always- you do a proper deactiavtion and reactivation of the plugin. Otherwise the upgrade process will not be triggered.