Victor,

There is a broken link in the fourth FAQ on the plugin page.

The bulk replace page has been moved.

Bad link:
https://christinacreativedesign.com/how-to-bulk-replace-the-4-8-wordpress-text-widget-with-the-classic-text-widget/

It’s here:

https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/how-to-bulk-replace-the-4-8-wordpress-text-widget-with-the-classic-text-widget/

Thanks,

Bob

Please help! I’ve tried everything… Despite updating this plugin, it’s still coming up as a missing plugin. Is there a fix available for this?

Best,
Shar

Hi, great plugin!

I was wondering if there is a way to disallow even HTML in the Classic Text Widgets, and if so, how one were to do so.

Thanks a ton.

Hey mate,

Will you keep this plugin active, despite that WP 4.8.1 brought Custom HTML Widget?

Or should we switch to the build-in one asap?

Regards

Cheers for the plugin.

One improvement suggestion.

Text widgets in WP get ‘widgets_text’ class added to them by default. And that is being used by various themes to style widget’s elements.

Your widget is missing that class, so styling for widget elements is missing in many themes.

Any chance in adding that class to the widget your plugin generates, please?

So it should be this:

class=”widget widget_text classic-textwidget”

instead of only what we currently have in your widget:

class=”widget classic-textwidget”

Regards
Michal

P.S.

For now I have added it myself by modifying line 20 in class-classic-wp-widget-text.php from:

$widget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'classic-textwidget', 'description' => __('The classic text widget for arbitrary html or text.', 'classic-text-widget') );

to:

$widget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'widget_text classic-textwidget', 'description' => __('The classic text widget for arbitrary html or text.', 'classic-text-widget') );

• This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Kramarz.

RESOLVED!
Hit a glitch on a site today. When I tried to activate the Classic Text Widget plugin, I got this error message:

Could not activiate Classic Text Widget because of this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home6/perpetv8/public_html/wp-content/plugins/classic-text-widget/plugin.php on line 34

– Initially, I tried to activate the plugin with WP 4.7.5 and Genesis 2.5
– When the plugin wouldn’t activate, I updated to WP 4.8 and Genesis 2.5.2
– It still wouldn’t activate, so I uninstalled and removed. Then reinstalled and still couldn’t activate it.
– Web host = Blue Host
– PHP v5.2.17 *(I will have to investigate this on the user’s account).

NOTE: Turns out that the culprit was the PHP v.2.17. I changed it to PHP 5.6.29 on the user’s account, and now the plugin activates!

• This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by askdesign.

Your plugin is great, but I hurried to rejoice and rewrite my widgets. After refreshing the page, PHP code does not work again, as if I saved it in a visual editor. Outwardly classic text widget looks like the old widget, but the php code is not supported in it. Is there any solution to this issue? Thank you.