1. Short Intro
Yeah baby! You guys have been waiting for this pluign for quite a long time( well not that long, considering that only 3 weeks passed from custom widgets v1.0). Since the initial release of Custom Widgets lots and lots of features were requested and bugs were reported.
We(betng4u and me - me with the ideas, him with the coding) tried to handle each an every request, unfortunately there were a few which we couldn’t fulfill(for example: you can’t install Custom Widgets using Pluginstaller, and we didn’t work on making it compatible with Pluginstaller because we considered that the normal installation process is easy as pie).
FOR SCREENSHOTS VISIT THE CUSTOM WIDGETS v1.0 RELEASE POST (click)
2. Official Presentation Video
I know, i know the speech in the video is a bit monoton, but i’m wasted after 6 hours of college and 2 hours of workout.
Click here to watch on Youtube
3. New features
Before starting work on Custom widgets v1.2 i’ve made a log of feature requests that i considered clever and bug reports(scroll down if you want to skip this):
######Custom Widgets v 1.2 - changes to be made###### ##################################################### 1) Fix category bug: custom widget added to a category can't be removed 2*) Pluginstaller isn't installing custom widgets (http://henning.imaginemore.de/pluginstaller/) *IDEA REMOVED, with manual instalation it works just fine* 3) Add to widget addition page an authors section for user to assign a widget to a specified author's posts only. 4) Conditional Tags simplification(use tickboxes): - http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags a) "Show Widget Only on Homepage" - is_home() Tooltip: "The widget is shown only on your blog's homepage using the is_home() tag" b) "Show Widget on all posts" - is_single() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any post is displayed using the is_single() tag" c) "Show Widget only on Sticky posts" - is_sticky() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any stickied page is displayed using the is_sticky() tag" d) "Show Widget on Posts/pages Where commenting is open" - comments_open() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any post is displayed where commenting is possible using the comments_open() tag" e) "Show widget on all pages" - is_page() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any page is displayed using the is_page() tag" f) "Show widget on all Categories" - is_category() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any category is displayed using the is_category() tag" g) "Show widget on all Tag Pages" - is_tag() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any Tag page is displayed using the is_tag() tag" h) "Show widget on all Archive pages" - is_archive() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when any type of Archive page is displayed using the is_archive() tag" i) "Show widget on Search results" - is_search() Tooltip: "The widget is shown on all search results using the is_search() tag" j) "Show widget on the 404 - Not found Error Page" -is_404() Tooltip: "The widget is shown on the 404 - Not found error page using the is_404() tag" k) "Show Widget for admin previews" - is_preview() Tooltip: "The widget is shown when a single post being displayed is viewed in Draft mode using the is_preview() tag ----------------------------------------------------- Each setting will have a "?" next to them which on hover will show a balloon with a tip of what the setting does with the tag name linked to the description at wordpress codex. 5) Compatibility with both php 4 and php 5. - DONE 6) Latest donors implementation. - Coming in v 1.3 ######Custom Widgets v 1.2 - major bug reports###### #################################################### A) Works fine on fresh install,at upgrade nothing happens - ISSUE FIXED B) Extended features list looks like a zoo, needs restructuring and more style | - ISSUE FIXED C) Plugin description is missleading, needs a new one - ISSUE FIXED (Used Jeff's description) D) When an advanced feature is selected at a widget the widget color doesn't turn red | - ISSUE FIXED E) Make a Wordpress.org compatible readme | - ISSUE FIXED F) Last minute issues: Users could only see a max number of 10 categories/tags/posts/pages on the options page | - ISSUE FIXED ######Custom Widgets v 1.2 - ETA - Launch###### ############################################### Friday, Oct 31 , 2008 (Halloween), Spooky! Jeff's feedback arrived on Nov 2, Release on Nov 6 or 8.
4. Download Slayer’s Custom Widgets v 1.2
5. Installation Instructions
5.1 upload the slayer_Custom_Widgets directory to wp-content/plugins
5.2 activate the plugin (dashboard -> plugins -> find “Slayer’s Custom Widgets” -> click the activate button
5.3 head over to the usual Widgets section (wp-admin/widgets.php) and add some items to your sidebar
5.4 Now go to Slayer’s Custom Widgets section and select the widget you want to customize.
5.5 Add the desired widgets to the desired pages.
5.6 You’re all done!
If you want to show some love feel free to comment or to blog about the plugin 
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If you don’t want to do either of the above you can always suggest new features and report bugs.
16 Responses to “Slayer’s Custom Widgets v1.2 WordPress Plugin Finally Out!”
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David North
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Posted: Nov 8th, 2008 at 2:30 am Reply to this comment.1Thanks.
Installed fine and added the featuers I was looking for. This really help make my sited do what I want them to do.
I can display widgets on the home page and no were else or on just certain pages.
(Note: the Display on Home page only lable should be just Display on Home page, because you can check that box and select other pages to add it to.) -
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2008 at 8:14 pm Reply to this comment.2Wordpress UK » Slayer’s Custom Widgets v1.2 WordPress Plugin Finally Out …[...] the original here: Slayer’s Custom Widgets v1.2 WordPress Plugin Finally Out … This entry was posted on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 and is filed under Wordpress Plugins. You [...]
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2008 at 10:44 pm Reply to this comment.3WordPress ??????? ?? 09/11/2008 | ??? ??? WordPress (?????????). ??????, ??????? (?????) ??? Wordpress.[...] Slayer’s Custom Widgets [...]
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Monika B
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Posted: Nov 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm Reply to this comment.4Awesome job! Thank you so much. Exactly what we were looking for here at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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Raj
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Posted: Nov 17th, 2008 at 6:28 pm Reply to this comment.5its amazing plug-in. kudos to u guys…..can u ad home page in the list of show on pages lists?… i have a plug in that i wanna show it on home page and some other pages except one.
u might already have this feature….may be i m missing….will double check..raj
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david schmeikal
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Posted: Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:04 am Reply to this comment.6Beautiful plugin. and thank you so much for taking the time to develop it.
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David North
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Posted: Nov 24th, 2008 at 6:35 pm Reply to this comment.7Is there a way to display and update the widgets that will appear on a page from the individual page update pages. If not this would be a nice addition.
David
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Tammy Hart
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Posted: Nov 24th, 2008 at 11:24 pm Reply to this comment.8This plugin is awesome, but I just need one more feature. I’ve tried figuring it out on my own, but I’m just not versed in php enough. I need to be able to edit the visibility of several different text widgets. The problem is, when i add a text widget, it’s listed as “text”. When I have five different text widgets, it gets confusing as to which is which. It would be very helpful if I could see the title of the text widget instead of just “Text”.
This need is semi-urgent, and I might could afford to pay you to help me if you’re available. Please email tammy at tammyhartdesigns dot com
Thanks!
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David North
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Posted: Dec 1st, 2008 at 6:11 pm Reply to this comment.9It would be helpful to be able to do the widget selection or at least see what is selected on the individual page update page. Any way that could be an enhancement?
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Rémi
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Posted: Dec 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm Reply to this comment.10I installed the plugin and it seemed to be fine, but it doesn’t hide the widgets like it’s supposed to. For example, even if I specify some widgets to only appear on the home page, it still appears everywhere.
I have WP v2.5.1 (which unfortunately I *cannot* upgrade). Is there anything I’m missing here?
Also, I modified the plugin a bit so it displays it’s admin tab under “Design” instead of showing it among the top tabs.
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Rémi
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Posted: Dec 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm Reply to this comment.11I got it. It’s working now. However, I guess it’s a bit because of my custom theme. I am not using get_header() to include a header.php in the template since the header is already included. I just use wp_head() in the head HTML tag.
So far, this plugin is the only one adding a callback to the ‘get_header’ action instead of ‘wp_head’, which all my other plugins do. (Although, I’m sure there must be other plugins using ‘get_header’ somewhere too and I should probably fix that lack of usage in my theme.)
I modified line 75 in the slayer_Custom_Widgets.php from:
add_action(’get_header’, array(&$this, ‘init’));
to:
add_action(’wp_head’, array(&$this, ‘init’));For my personal preference, like I mentioned earlier, I also renamed the tab for the admin page of the plugin and moved it in the ‘Design’ tag. To do so, I modified line 101 from:
add_options_page(’Slayer`s Custom widgets’, ‘Slayer`s Custom widgets’, 8, __FILE__ , array(&$this, ‘admin_page’));
to:
add_submenu_page(’themes.php’, ‘Custom Widgets’, ‘Custom Widgets’, 8, __FILE__ , array(&$this, ‘admin_page’));Hope that helps!
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slayer
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Posted: Dec 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am Reply to this comment.12It would be helpful to be able to do the widget selection or at least see what is selected on the individual page update page. Any way that could be an enhancement?
could you be a bit more specific?
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slayer
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Posted: Dec 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 am Reply to this comment.13I installed the plugin and it seemed to be fine, but it doesn’t hide the widgets like it’s supposed to. For example, even if I specify some widgets to only appear on the home page, it still appears everywhere.
I have WP v2.5.1 (which unfortunately I *cannot* upgrade). Is there anything I’m missing here?
Also, I modified the plugin a bit so it displays it’s admin tab under “Design” instead of showing it among the top tabs.
wordpress 2.5.1 is OLD, outdated and hackable, i would suggest you upgrade it to latest version ASAP
upgrading is simple: download the package from Wordpress.org and upload the contents replacing old files. Once that is done point your browser to /wp-admin/upgrade.php and do the upgrade
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Rémi
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Posted: Dec 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm Reply to this comment.14Oh, believe me, there’s nothing else I want besides upgrading that old version, especially to 2.7, but it’s for a government client and they have to do evalutions for new versions of software, which they don’t want to go through right now, and blah blah blah… the story goes on. Ugh…
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slayer
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Posted: Dec 3rd, 2008 at 7:39 pm Reply to this comment.15Oh, believe me, there’s nothing else I want besides upgrading that old version, especially to 2.7, but it’s for a government client and they have to do evalutions for new versions of software, which they don’t want to go through right now, and blah blah blah… the story goes on. Ugh…
in that case all i can tell you is that i”m happy you got the plugin to work on it
regarding wp 2.7: never update to a beta version unless you want to test it, wait for a final release
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jenny
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Posted: Dec 20th, 2008 at 7:17 pm Reply to this comment.16I wanna fucking THANK YOU for releasing this AWESOME fucking plugin. It saves me so much time and aggravation. You can bet if I had a job right now I’d donate $ to you guys because it is SWEET!!! This is the best plugin EVER!!! A must have!
Hello, and welcome to my blog. My name is Tom and i am the owner of thaslayer.com. I'm 19 years old and currently in college (Year I) studying English Literature and Lexicology, but also work as a professional freelance web designer, and part-time blogger. 