WordPress Ideas » Topic: Conditionality for widgets http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets WordPress Ideas » Topic: Conditionality for widgets en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 11:08:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 alanft on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-4891 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:12:49 +0000 alanft 4891@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ plugin is up now :-)

]]> alanft on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-4841 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:33:44 +0000 alanft 4841@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ I have implemented this and have just requested hosting here. It should appear here soon:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

I have posted early code here

http://jauntyalan.livejournal.com/25171.html

]]> bryan868 on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-4428 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:55:53 +0000 bryan868 4428@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ This is an excellent idea, and I hope it's implemented. This really opens up the widgets feature and it greatly needed.

]]> Dougal Campbell on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-4289 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:10:40 +0000 Dougal Campbell 4289@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ codeispoetry: what is being described here is *not* already possible.

What's being proposed is a mechanism for widgets to be configured so that they automatically appear (or not) on certain page views. So one could say "The FOO widget should always appear in the sidebar, but the BAR widget will only appear on archive views, and the BAZ widget will only appear for single posts".

]]> Mark on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-1378 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:04:50 +0000 Mark 1378@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ removed accidental duplicate posting

]]> Mark on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-1377 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:02:45 +0000 Mark 1377@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ This is already possible via the template system, and I think template logic like this is better left to the templates instead of adding an extra layer of configurability to the admin interface.

The idea is akin to Drupal 'blocks' and in my experience, that particular Drupal feature is quite a good example of why mixing up template logic and admin interface isn't a good idea. It can get very confusing, especially because the templates usually host a lot of conditionals too.

]]> captainhendry on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-630 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:09:03 +0000 captainhendry 630@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ Currently I have separate header and sidebars for posts versus pages. This means I can't take advantage of the great sidebar widgets plugin. Adding conditionality would be a great improvement.

]]> msmeritt on "Conditionality for widgets" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/conditionality-for-widgets#post-586 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:55:49 +0000 msmeritt 586@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ I would love to see a simple feature added whereby every single widget that's added can optionally have a condition applied to it so that the widget can appear in some places and not others.

Some widgets make sense on home page, archive, single posts, pages, but not everywhere. Some people might want a logo to appear within a set of child pages belonging to one particular parent page, but nowhere else on the site.

Naturally, there will be many cases where someone will want a widget everywhere, and that's why the conditionality should be optional -- don't specify any conditionality at all, and it's just like it always was, no extra work for the user, and the widget appears everywhere. But for those who do want the option, adding this simple function would open up a world of customization for widgets without requiring that any number of widgets themselves be further complicated.

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