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It might be this widget uses an old deprecated way of registering it to WordPress. Unfortunately DW can not deal with that. Don’t you get a warning / error when you save the DW options for this widget?
Thanks for the prompt help!
Nope, no errors. I get the following message on save:
Widget options saved. Return to Dynamic Widgets overview
I’m a bit of a novice, how can I find if the widget uses an old deprecated way of registering it to WordPress?
Here’s the dump if it may help:
http://pastebin.com/Nm900Atq
I’m in a fix here. Use this plugin extensively. Any other lead would be much appreciated.
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I was going to ask for a dump. Great you came up with that yourself.
I found the problem. First the really good news: The widget is registered correctly. DW sees it and can handle it. So, why does it fail? Well, this is a bit technical, but the unique name used for the widget is quite long (mr-social-sharing-toolkit-follow-widget-2). That’s 42 characters. DW has a limit to 40 characters. That’s why it’s not working. The good news: I can fix that and will widen the limit a bit up. I’ll release a new development version with the higher limit asap. Will let you know when I have that ready.
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Here is development version 1.5.3.1 which has this issue fixed.
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dynamic-widgets.zip
You are amazing! Thank you so much for such prompt responses.
I’m downloading this one. Hoping it should fix the issue, will let you know in any case.
Works for me 🙂
Is it safe to install this dev version to my live site or should I just make changes for increasing the width?
Again, can’t thank you enough for your support and making this cool plugin!
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Yeah, it’s safe to use this on a live site. Not much have changed since 1.5.3.
