Yesterday, on October the 24th Jeff and Keith covered 4 main subjects in this week’s Wordpress Weekly Talkshow:

- The usage of Gravatar, and the importance of NOT changing your gravatar frequently.

- Overview of the new Wordpress 2.7 dashboard, and an admin backend overview.

- Chat about Akismet and how well it fights spam.

- Alex King’s Carrington Theme framework.

- Plugins of the week and Wordpress Job of the week.

Within the Plugins of the week discussion Jeff chose Custom Widgets as this week’s plugin. Besides talking about it they gave me some suggestions regarding the plugin, the most important one being the possibility to assign widgets to specified templates(e.g:single.php):

“I’d like to see the ability to control which widgets appear on which template such as configuring a widget to appear on pages that utilize the single.php template while hiding that same widget from other templates.”

Well Jeff, this is a great idea and you can be sure that it will be implemented in Custom Widgets v 1.2, along with some other handy features.

ZuperZed asked me what’s the difference between Custom Widgets and Widget Logic plugin which can assign widgets to templates(what Jeff suggested), but its damn hard to use.

The user has to define the desired template, and know the Conditional Tags used by Wordpress,

Here are some examples:

is\_home() || is\_category('baked-goods')
or
$x=(1==1)?true:false; return ( !is_home() && $x);

The issue with that is that not even an above-average wordpress user can use the plugin with ease. Slayer’s Custom Widgets Plugin is very simple to use with absolutely no coding knowledge and I still got lots of emails from people asking me how to use it.

This feature WILL be added to Custom Widgets v1.2 which will be out sooner than you expect it

Press play to listen to the discussion about Custom Widgets

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