46 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin - Slayer’s Custom Widgets v 1.0”

1. Cathy 1   0   Posted: Oct 17th, 2008 at 7:27 pm Reply to this comment.

   1 thanks for share.. i like it

2. absolon 1   0   Posted: Oct 22nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm Reply to this comment.

   2 I’ve read whole post and I’m amazed. It seems to be one of most powerful plugin for Wordpress. I’m going to test it soon. Thank you for great share.

3. JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes 0   0   Posted: Oct 24th, 2008 at 3:14 pm Reply to this comment.

   3 I love this plugin and I have two suggestions. First install “subscribe to comments” right away, I won’t remember to come back to this page and check for responses ( I have bad ADD, lol ). Second, based on the functionality you provided in this plugin - I wonder if you would be interested in creating another (very needed) plugin. One that would allow bloggers to create custom tag and category pages “from the wp dashboard” without having to create the obligatory tag-slug.php and cat-id.php pages by hand and manually upload them to the theme directory. It would of course be an added feature of already existing category and tag management pages, probably just a “create and edit template” button. Are you interested in this challenge? Please send me email and let me know…

4. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm Reply to this comment.

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5. ZuperZed 0   0   Posted: Oct 24th, 2008 at 7:38 pm Reply to this comment.

   5 I love the effort you guys put into making these awesome plugins… This question might sound a bit rude (it’s not meant to be) but how is this different from the Widget Logic plugin? Don’t get me wrong here, I just want to know if and why I should use your plugin instead of WL? Keep up the good work!

6. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pm Reply to this comment.

   6 Area Specific Widgets [...] within the actual widget I wanted to display. Now it looks as though there is a decent solution. Slayer’s Custom Widgets is able to ensure that any of your current widgets are only displayed on certain [...]

7. absolon 0   0   Posted: Oct 24th, 2008 at 11:06 pm Reply to this comment.

   7 Hi again! After small tests I have to report one issue. Remove from category doesn’t work. I’ve clicked on particular category, confirmed but nothing happen. I’ve tested on 2.6.3 Wordpress. By the way. How can I add display widget on homepage? On if I got “display All” widget is visible on main site. For example I want display in 2 categories + main site only.

8. slayer 0   0   Posted: Oct 25th, 2008 at 5:44 am Reply to this comment.

   8 Author Comment This question might sound a bit rude (it’s not meant to be) but how is this different from the Widget Logic plugin? Don’t get me wrong here, I just want to know if and why I should use your plugin instead of WL? It’s not rude, questions are always good. Before making the overall concept i did some searches looking for similar plugins, but i couldn’t find any , and the plugin was born. The basic difference between the widget logic plugin and Custom widgets is that as you saw from the screenshots its more easy to use, and setting the widgets is just one click away, and much more organized and flexible. After small tests I have to report one issue. Remove from category doesn’t work. I’ve clicked on particular category, confirmed but nothing happen. I’ve tested on 2.6.3 Wordpress. Great find absolon! We’ll get the issue fixed along with some other minor issues till Monday By the way. How can I add display widget on homepage? On if I got “display All” widget is visible on main site. For example I want display in 2 categories + main site only. In v 1.0 this isn’t available, in version 1.1 which will be released Monday or Tuesday this feature will also be available. Thanks for the suggestion!

9. fromtheold 0   0   Posted: Oct 25th, 2008 at 1:10 pm Reply to this comment.

   9 Great plugin. Thanks

10. Crawford Harris 0   1   Posted: Oct 25th, 2008 at 5:12 pm Reply to this comment.

    10 I installed the plugin. I activated it. I then clicked on the setting button. It went directly to the 404 page. I cannot see anything I might have done incorrectly.

11. ZuperZed 0   0   Posted: Oct 25th, 2008 at 6:53 pm Reply to this comment.

    11 This question might sound a bit rude (it’s not meant to be) but how is this different from the Widget Logic plugin? Don’t get me wrong here, I just want to know if and why I should use your plugin instead of WL? It’s not rude, questions are always good. Before making the overall concept i did some searches looking for similar plugins, but i couldn’t find any , and the plugin was born. The basic difference between the widget logic plugin and Custom widgets is that as you saw from the screenshots its more easy to use, and setting the widgets is just one click away, and much more organized and flexible. Okay, thanks for reply! I’ll give it a shot…

12. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 25th, 2008 at 11:46 pm Reply to this comment.

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13. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am Reply to this comment.

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14. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 26th, 2008 at 9:41 am Reply to this comment.

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15. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm Reply to this comment.

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16. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm Reply to this comment.

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17. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 26th, 2008 at 9:45 pm Reply to this comment.

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18. Jossi 0   0   Posted: Oct 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pm Reply to this comment.

    18 I am running WP 2.6.2 and getting this error during activation: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /html/blog/wp-content/plugins/slayer_custom_widgets/slayer_Custom_Widgets.php on line 34 ????

19. slayer 1   0   Posted: Oct 27th, 2008 at 5:28 pm Reply to this comment.

    19 Author Comment I am running WP 2.6.2 and getting this error during activation: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /html/blog/wp-content/plugins/slayer_custom_widgets/slayer_Custom_Widgets.php on line 34 ???? Your running php 4 thats why your getting the error, if someone can provide a subdomain with 10 megs of ftp on a server with php 4 i would really appreciate it, because than the plugin would be made compatible with both php 4.x and 5.x If someone wants to help out, simply post a comment here, or use the contact form, or send me a mail directly to tom@thaslayer.com Thanks

20. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Oct 27th, 2008 at 11:06 pm Reply to this comment.

    20 Widgets Only On One Page - DIY Themes Forums [...] announcements of new plugins. This one, announced just a few days ago, will be of interest to you: Wordpress Plugin - Slayer?s Custom Widgets v 1.0 | slayer’s blog __________________ Rick Beckman, Kingdom Geek & Thesis Support Ninja (Forums Moderator) [ [...]

21. slayer 0   0   Posted: Oct 28th, 2008 at 6:10 am Reply to this comment.

    21 Author Comment If someone wants to help out, simply post a comment here, or use the contact form, or send me a mail directly to tom@thaslayer.com Thanks Nevermind that, i found a host with php 4.4.2

22. Jossi 0   0   Posted: Oct 29th, 2008 at 4:23 pm Reply to this comment.

    22 Is it possible to tell the plugin to show a specific widget on the home page only?

23. slayer 0   0   Posted: Oct 29th, 2008 at 5:17 pm Reply to this comment.

    23 Author Comment Unfortunately no in this version, but in the next that feature will be also available cheers, Tom Is it possible to tell the plugin to show a specific widget on the home page only?

24. Adrian 0   0   Posted: Oct 30th, 2008 at 5:08 pm Reply to this comment.

    24 Hey, I was hoping to display a widget on posts within a certain category. Selecting that category displays it in single posts as wanted but also the category post dump. I am building up a directory and the widget of concern is displaying custom fields with unique values for each post - but when this widget is shown for the category display, it shows values that are only relevant to the first post in the loop.

25. jpcookj 0   0   Posted: Nov 1st, 2008 at 5:14 am Reply to this comment.

    25 Thank you very much for the plugin. I am going to try to see if it will solve my problems.

26. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 1st, 2008 at 7:46 am Reply to this comment.

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27. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 1st, 2008 at 7:47 am Reply to this comment.

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28. David North 0   0   Posted: Nov 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 am Reply to this comment.

    28 If you specify all the selected widgets to appear on page then there are none for the home page and random widgets appear on the home page. I would be great to be able to specify the widgets for the home page. thanks for a great plugin.

29. slayer 0   0   Posted: Nov 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 am Reply to this comment.

    29 Author Comment @ David - custom widgets v 1.2 is finished. I’ve sent it to Jeff for some extra testing. As soon as he gets back to me i’ll release v 1.2 with the requested features cheers, Tom

30. David North 0   0   Posted: Nov 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm Reply to this comment.

    30 Thanks, I am looking forward to the release.

31. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:03 am Reply to this comment.

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32. Colin Sutton 0   0   Posted: Nov 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm Reply to this comment.

    32 I think this plugin could be very useful on the site I am building. I have installed the plugin and set up three widgets. I have about 15 pages on the website so far and initally want to display a widget on all but one of the pages. But in the Custom Widget Text Pages I have a list of only the first 10 pages (which I can select from and know that the plugin is working fine) - when I click on the Older Entries link at the bottom of the page it doesn’t show me my remaining pages and so I can’t control them using the plugin. Is there a general problem here is it just on my site? thanks Col

33. slayer 0   0   Posted: Nov 6th, 2008 at 3:11 pm Reply to this comment.

    33 Author Comment @ Col the older entries button/link has nothing to do with Custom Widgets, also could you specify more precisely what you mean by: when I click on the Older Entries link at the bottom of the page it doesn’t show me my remaining pages and so I can’t control them using the plugin. cheers, Tom

34. Colin Sutton 0   0   Posted: Nov 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm Reply to this comment.

    34 Hi Tom Thanks for the quick reply - now I know the Older Entries link is nothing to do with your widget. What happens is this: I get the Custom Widgets page and click on a text widget in Sidebar 1 get the Custom Widgets text page and click on pages (Edit) get the Custom Widgets Text pages screen and have 10 of my 15 pages available with checkboxes (showing under the Page title section on the right). I can add selected pages from these 10 the trouble is I can’t see a way of getting to my remaining 5 pages! It’s probably obvious but I just can’t see it Col

35. slayer 0   0   Posted: Nov 6th, 2008 at 4:51 pm Reply to this comment.

    35 Author Comment Oh! You should have specified that your talking about that older entries link. We’ll get the issue fixed in a few Thanks for the heads up! cheers, Tom

36. Tori 0   0   Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 at 4:41 pm Reply to this comment.

    36 Hi, this plugin is going to solve all my problems Just waiting for the new release with the options for homepage display of widgets. Any idea when it will be ready? Thanks for all the work!

37. slayer 0   0   Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 at 6:22 pm Reply to this comment.

    37 Author Comment @ Tori i can’t give you an exact date but it will be any day now cheers, Tom

38. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm Reply to this comment.

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39. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm Reply to this comment.

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40. Edward de Leau 0   0   Posted: Nov 8th, 2008 at 1:42 am Reply to this comment.

    40 This could be handy form my TAG pages, Im going to try it, thanks.

41. slayer 0   0   Posted: Nov 8th, 2008 at 1:42 am Reply to this comment.

    41 Author Comment Custom Widgets v1.2 is OUT! Please check out the Official Release Post

42. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 17th, 2008 at 12:12 am Reply to this comment.

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43. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Nov 22nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm Reply to this comment.

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44. laihiu 0   0   Posted: Nov 24th, 2008 at 4:13 pm Reply to this comment.

    44 this plugin saved me so much trouble :) i no longer have to write those lengthy php conditionals to make things work for my sidebar(s). way to go!!!!

45. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Dec 6th, 2008 at 6:23 pm Reply to this comment.

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46. pingback: 0   0   Posted: Dec 26th, 2008 at 8:23 pm Reply to this comment.

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