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and is it WP3.5?

Although I like to think it’s 2.8+ compatible, they made a change in 3.5 that I hard coded a change for, and in retrospect I should detect the WP version and do what’s right for pre/post 3.5

The upshot for now is that widgets can lose code the first time you hit save (not the second) if you use current WL on pre 3.5WP and older WL on post 3.5WP

if it’s not that, then I don’t have a lot to go on, and can’t think of any troubleshooting steps to help you either. sorry

oh that’s a really good tip using $GLOBALS – that had not occurred to me!

you need the global $post or they will always return false. that one early widget has “global $post” in it may be enough for the others to work (though I wouldn’t have guessed this would work if you’d asked me), but it’s safest not to depend on it.

No, not with widget logic. You need a “context-sensitive” widget. Here’s an outline of how you could do that. (Though this is from old code – I suspect widgets are meant to be setup more sensibly with classes or something these days)

function my_author_bio($args)
{	global $wp_query, $userdata;
	extract($args);
	$author_obj = ($wp_query->post);
	$author_obj= get_userdata($author_obj->post_author);

	echo $before_widget . $before_title . "Author Bio" . $after_title;

	if ($author_obj->user_description)
		echo $author_obj->user_description;
	else
		echo "<p>No biography available.</p>";

	echo $after_widget;
}

register_sidebar_widget('Author Bio','my_author_bio');

it should definitely be && (that is ‘AND’) and not || (which is ‘OR’) to work. But if it’s not working then perhaps date_i18n isn’t working as expected on your install, and you’ll have to work out some way of checking what it is doing.

there’s a note specifically about is_page in the FAQ – check that. But I don’t think you are using is_page appropriately – it’s for ‘page’ style pages, not PAGED pages. it’s a poor choice of WordPress nomenclature.

ISTR that you can find out which page of a category you are on with the global $paged variable. or it might be more complex according to this…

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_paged

I would try using a PHP widget that does something like

global $cat; echo “cat= “.$cat.” term_children=”; print_r( get_term_children( 5, ‘category’))

which will help troubleshoot this.