Beta testers wanted for Widget Context 1.0

I’ve found one bug. Widgets do not show up on pages or posts when “All Posts and Pages” is selected.

Thanks for your work on this plugin!

Hi Kaspars – thanks for the awesome plugin! I tried this out on a couple of my sites and noticed the same thing as burquidi. Otherwise, it’s working great!

Thanks for the feedback @burquidi and @mlteal! I’ll push a fix right away.

I installed the beta, and it doesn’t show my custom post types in the widget options, except for 2 that were created by another plugin. It doesn’t show the ones I created in functions.php. I tried various settings like heirarchical => true and has_archive => true and public => true, etc.. and nothing has any effect.

Any ideas?

Also, if you check “show on selected” and then select “All posts” — it shows the widget on all custom post types, too. There should be an option to only show on all “post” posts. Basically all single blog posts, but not custom post type single posts.

Thank you for the feedback @lsterling03 @mlteal!

I have pushed a new version 1.0-alpha.6 which should fix the issue with “All Posts”. Turns out that the default behaviour of is_single() is to return true “if a single post of any post type except attachment and page post types is being displayed”. I have switched to using is_singular('post') instead now.

Hi Kaspars,

I just installed the newest version and it functions as expected when editing or adding widgets through wp-admin/widgets.php (I wasn’t testing the behavior that @lsterling03 mentioned, though).

I did try it out through the new live widget preview feature and it looks like there’s an issue when you visit a new page while still in the customiser – after changing the page you’re on you can no longer choose “Display on selected” from the dropdown without whatever you have checked off being unchecked.

I emailed you at the address listed on your website with the link to a screencast of what I described above – please let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help ??

Thank you @mlteal for taking another look at the newest version. Your detailed explanation and the screencast of the problem are really helpful! I could replicate the bug and will release a fix soon.

A new version 1.0-alpha.7 has been released. Please check if it resolves all issues you were having guys.

Now there is also a Widget Context settings panel under “Settings > Widget Context” which allows you to hide Widget Context modules that you not using.

Hi Kaspars, I tested the latest version on a few more sites, as well as updated it on the sites I was already testing on. Here’s what I’ve got:

– The Settings page works great – love being able to display/hide what we need ??
– All functionality is working great for me on widgets.php and with editing widgets that already existed while updating via the customizer
– I’m still having the same issue with new widget + customizer + changing the page I’m viewing in the customizer. Here’s the interesting thing, though, is that it DOES work as expected when I test it on an install that’s just running on my local machine (to be honest I don’t recall if I tested on a local install last time or not :/ ). I also gave it a run on a site that’s on DreamHost and it worked fine there too. Obviously it’s got to do with different environments but beyond that I’m not sure. I can give you access to a WPE install if you’d like, though ??

Any news on this?

I am currently using the alpha as it is far more stable than the previous release but would love an update.

Many thanks!

Thanks everyone for participating in the alpha testing of the plugin. Version 1.0 has now been officially released.