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one of the sample codes on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/other_notes/ is

global $post; return (in_array(77,get_post_ancestors($post))); — WP page that is a child of page 77

if you can get the page ID number of ‘california’ that might do you.

One possibility would be

* save an up-to-date WP backup
* restore from an old backup when you had WL code
* save out the WL options using the new export options
* restore the DB again from the up-to-date backup
* import the WL options

You can see the new WL export/import options on the screenshots

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

If save/restore is too big/slow you could delve into the SQL backup and pull out the “widget_logic” option field in wp_options table. though it will be serialised – so this might be a bit out of your “coding comfort zone”

You have one more ( than you have ), which is why you are getting a “PHP Parse error: syntax error”

Hard to say why that would happen – eg you could have accidentally edited in a paragraph mark at the top of the plugin PHP.

So the first thing I recommend is that you put your function in to your theme’s functions.php. And then use the late loading option ‘after the theme loads’ so that the function can be ‘seen’ by your various widget logic (see configuration options in the installation tab)

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

Then revert widget logic code to a fresh install.

also, as ‘use cases’ for the different load points become clearer. It’s not a feature I make use of in my own installations, but I’ve had people in a variety of situations that I *believe* can be fixed with one of these options.

(Thanks for giving me this platform to put this out there – I nearly self posted about it, but worried it wasn’t of enough interest)

3.3.1 i’m happy with (and the user compatibility widget says 50 v 2), and I’ve just updated the home site i test with on 3.3.2 and it’s working fine.

It’s worth mentioning there’s a dev version to test too with a couple of important additions in it. I’ve got no way to ask people to beta test that for me. So i’ll probably just commit that soon, as it works fine for me.

I have added loading time options to the development version

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

It’s a new drop down option “Load logic: …” on the widgets page along with the other widget logic options.

I’d be obliged if anyone seeing this would try it out and let me know if it’s OK, failing, has fixed problems, made things worse, etc.

Added to the dev version since .51 are these optional ‘load times’, and a export/import all WL settings

i haven’t found a widget that shows the author bio, but I haven’t looked in ages and there’s probably one out there now. You’d then set this up to show on

is_single()

i suspect – if you persist with Widget Logic.

FWIW, here’s the widget I wrote years ago to do it though:

function blog_author_bio($args)
{	global $wp_query, $userdata;
	extract($args);
	$author_obj = ($wp_query->post); $author_obj= get_userdata($author_obj->post_author);
	$title=($author_obj->user_nicename);
	if ($author_obj->user_firstname)
		$title=($author_obj->user_firstname)." ".($author_obj->user_lastname);

	echo $before_widget . $before_title . $title . $after_title;

	if ($author_obj->user_description)
		echo substr(apply_filters('category_description', $author_obj->user_description),3);
	else
		echo "<p>No biography available.</p>";

	if ($userdata->ID == $author_obj->ID)
	{	?><p><a href="/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php">Edit your Biographical Info</a></p><? }

	echo $after_widget;
}

which is registered with

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