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1. pompey_john
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I have searched the site, but not found an answer. I am new to programming so please bear with me.

   My site is set up like this...

   'home' - currently set to blog posts, may become static
   Archives, etc - static pages
   And a LOAD of hierarchical category pages

   cat one
   cat one - subcat
   cat one - subcat - subcat

   What I am trying to do is to set up a series of widgets on a sidebar of these category pages. The widgets will be flickr pics, popular posts, and so on.

   Now I have hundreds of these categories. The prospect of having to customise each widget using the widget logic plugin is ... not something I really want to do.

   So I am hoping that I can somehow parse the category name as a variable which I can then use in the widgets. Coded once and dynamically working for the hundreds of categories :)

   I appreciate that my goal largely depends on having widgets that play nicely. I *really* hope that Activity Sparks works.

   What I am hoping for here is the nod that this can be done, and if so then I'll try and track down a series of compatible widgets which can be hardcoded into the sidebar.

   Many thanks in advance,
   John

2. pompey_john
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   sorry I also meant to note;

   I am using permalinks with the category name... so perhaps some sort of regex wizadry could be done?

3. robertjakobson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes, this is a serious question that needs to be solved in the future versions.

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