25 March 2012 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets 1.5.1

This is to announce I have the pleasure to tell you I’ve just released version 1.5.1 of my WordPress plugin Dynamic Widgets. This version has the following 2 features added, 7 bugs fixed and a major update the way of generating the static pages list. This update makes it much faster and more reliable. Below the list:

• Added Custom Taxonomies support for Pages
• Added Portuguese language files (locale: pt_PT) – Obrigado Pedro!
• Bugfix for Illegal offset type in isset or empty in /wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 211.
• Bugfix for Options disappear when adding a widget to a sidebar.
• Bugfix for Taxonomy childs are displayed when Taxonomy is not hierarchical.
• Bugfix for deprecated call-time pass-by-reference in custompost_module.php on line 226.
• Bugfix for showing info balloon at Tag archive Pages.
• Bugfix for Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in dynwid_admin_save.php on line 158.
• Bugfix for Cannot modify header information – headers already sent
• Changed the way the hierarchical tree for static pages is build.

13 January 2012 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Disappearing widget options

It seems that Dynamic Widgets 1.5.0 let widget options sometimes disappear when you add a widget to a sidebar. Only the Save button remains. Just hit that Save button and all options will reappear.

I’m going to look into it.

UPDATE: [13 Jan 2012] Development Version 1.5.0.1 has a fix for this issue.

12 January 2012 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets 1.5.0

I have finally released version 1.5.0 of Dynamic Widgets. A lot have been changed, below you’ll find an overview of all the bits and pieces. Two things are major:

• I’ve moved the system requirements a bit up. You must have at least PHP 5.1 running on your host, also at least WP 3.0.
• Support for individual Custom Posts have been dropped. It was not reliable compared to the high standards I’m using.

When you upgrade manually, be sure to remove the whole dynamic-widgets directory. Do a fresh copy of this version. Some files have been renamed. Old files remaining might lead to unexpected behaviour.

As usual, below is the complete changelog.

• Added Pods plugin support.
• Added Tag Archive Pages support.
• Added hierarchical inheritance for Categories.
• Added workaround to detect correct template when using Pods.
• Added negative exceptions for Role.
• Added an “Only on first page” exception for Front Page.
• Added support for BP Group Hierarchy.
• Added support for bbPress User Profile pages.
• Added Chinese (Simplified) language files (locale: zh_CN) – xie xie Hanolex!
• Added Lithuanian language files (locale: lt_LT) – dekoju Liudas!
• Added a “Save & Return” button to the widget options page.
• Bugfix for subscribers show up in the author lists in WP > 3.1.
• Bugfix for Taxonomies in Custom Post Types are not always saved.
• Bugfix for Custom Posts box is sometimes empty.
• Fixed several PHP notices about undefined variables.
• Removed support for individual Custom Posts.
• Removed PHP4 support, minimum PHP version is now 5.1.0.
• Removed WP < 3.0 support. Minimum WordPress version is now 3.0.

24 September 2011 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets fix for BuddyPress 1.5

Fortunately I had quickly found what was going wrong with the BuddyPress detection process in Dynamic Widgets since BuddyPress 1.5. The fix is included in the development version 1.5b4. This is however a beta version. For people not comfortable with beta versions, having some programming expierence, using Dynamic Widgets 1.4.2 and BuddyPress 1.5, you can also replace the first function in /wp-content/plugins/dynamic-widgets/plugins/bp.php with the function code below.

function dw_get_bp_components() {
	$bp = &$GLOBALS['bp'];
	$DW = &$GLOBALS['DW'];
	
	$components = array();
	
	foreach ( $bp->active_components as $key => $value ) {
		if ( version_compare(BP_VERSION, '1.5', '<') ) {
			$c = &$value;
		} else {
			$c = &$key;
		}
	}
				
	if ( $c == 'groups' ) {
		$components[$c] = ucfirst($c) . ' (only main page)';
		$DW->bp_groups = TRUE;
	} else {
		$components[$c] = ucfirst($c);
	}
	
	asort($components);
	return $components;
}

23 September 2011 in Dynamic Widgets by Jacco

Dynamic Widgets with BuddyPress 1.5

It looks like Dynamic Widgets does not detect BuddyPress anymore since version 1.5 of BuddyPress. I’m going to look into the issue soon.

See also the issue tracker. It has been registered under issue 32.