Unclear deprecated functionality, no central settings anymore

  • laga

    (@laga)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    What a joke. The old version used to have central settings which I spent time filling out. In the new version, each widget instance has a separate list of links. You have to copy & paste the correct CSS class into the widget settings. Are you kidding me?

    This plugin is recommended to go with the CSSIgniter Olympic Theme. CSSIgniter has multiple widget locations for blog sidebar, page sidebar, service sidebar etc. I have to reconfigure the widget for each instance. What a waste of time.

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  • Thread Starter laga

    (@laga)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Use a plugin to clone the instances: https://wordpress.org/plugins/oomph-clone-widgets/

    edit: except this doesn’t work very well.

    Other plugins can apparently create live clones, but I never tested that.

    Plugin Author Anastis Sourgoutsidis

    (@anastis)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there,
    I’m sorry to hear that you are disappointed with our design decision.

    The reason the widget now needs a separate list of icons and urls is just a matter of flexibility.

    With the old widget, you could only have a specific number and ordering of icons, no matter where you placed the widget.

    Now there is no limitation. Yes, it might be a burden to set-up identical widgets for multiple sidebars, however we’ve found that most of our users place just one widget instance in a widget area that appears site-wide, such as in the header or the footer.

    Also, now you can have different icons depending on whatever, using plugins such as Widget Logic and WooSidebars.

    You might also want to give Widget Wrangler a spin for cloning/repeating widgets.

    I hope the reasoning I just wrote, make the pain go away 🙂
    I appreciate your feedback, no matter what.

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