Comments on: Widgetized web site. Beyond sidebars.

By: Damis

Damis — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:09:29 +0000

This seems not to apply to 2.5… Any updates?

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Wordpress Coding - WebSiteMechanics — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:34:18 +0000

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By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:20:22 +0000

Adam,

this is probably very specific to a theme used. But it’s good to know, in case random problems pop up. Thanks for sharing.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:03:54 +0000

no, i wasn't clear. for themes, your code should be something like


'before_widget' => '',
         'after_widget' => '',
         'before_title' => '',
         'after_title' => '',
         'id' => '1',
         'name' => 'Left Sidebar'

if you only include name, and not ID, the theme borks in strange ways (sometimes related to static front pages)

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:55:57 +0000

Adam,

if I understand it correctly, IDs are used for cases, where the same widget can be used several times. Like the text widget. There is a way to automatically generate unique IDs with WP.

One day I’ll dig deeper into that and will share the findings.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:36:06 +0000

naming your sidebars is a good idea, but with 2.2.x, i've found that i've had to also add 'id' => 'right', to the array.

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:47:14 +0000

apache/.htaccess might work, but still the URLs will be wrong in WordPress, and this is what puzzles me (and I’d like to see it fixed…)

So better to search what part of the WP code makes the error… :-) I’ll try, I’m just not very strong in PHP:)

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:50:03 +0000

Michel,

Yes, the forum isn’t the best place of the WordPress community right now. I haven’t even posted anything in there… Only searching for answers and rarely so.

I see that there was some activity in Trac regarding your issue. It’s marked for branch 2.4, which is not too far away. :)

In the meantime, it might be possible to get a workaround with Apache’s mod_rewrite. In your .htaccess you could have a rule that would redirect requests from /something/wp-uploads/some_file to /wp-uploads/some_file . I don’t know if that would break the actual uploading though. :)

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:15:47 +0000

Great, thx:)

The forum — nooo, no luck there… I posted a question, no response at all:( So tried TRAC… Pity I can’t hack it (propose a fix, I mean) myself… :-/

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4427

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:36:03 +0000

Michel,

yes, I am reading wp-hackers. But I haven’t used TRAC yet. I’m just keeping myself updated on the latest developments and arguing here and there. No actual tractivity ;)

Maybe you can subscribe and buzz the developers about your issue. They seem to be pretty responsive. You can try the forum…