www.ads-software.com reports:
This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Also, Google deprecated its old RSS news feed URLs as of December 1, 2007. Here we are exactly two full months later and this plugin still hasn’t been updated to use the new format, breaking every site it’s used on.
The most recent support thread before mine is two years old! In it, you say:
Hey there!
You can be safe knowing I’d never hold anyone ransom for a pro version to fix errors ??
Except that appears to be exactly what you’re doing now, since the pro version has apparently been fixed for this yet the free version has not two months after Google’s announced-well-in-advance deadline.
]]>First let me say this is / has been a GREAT PLUGIN! But on two of my my clients sites that use it their logs are being loaded by depreciated messages from the plugin.
This was noticed after clients called about a loading delay on their websites.
Upon looking into the issues and disabling plugins (and switching to basic themes (twenty 15), the problem was only corrected by disabling the PROPER Widgets plugin. Both clients use it for the Google News feature to display current articles relating to their websites.
Both clients have updated WordPress versions, one with limited plugins the other with well more than I would like to see. But again fixing the issues came down to disabling the plugin and no more headaches.
If it was just the error in the logs issue, I wouldn’t care (nor my clients) but even turning off the deprecated warnings to the logs the lag of the website loading was still an issue. NOTE: it was placing a warning fro every article they pulled / displayed in the feed, for every IP that loaded the page.
I am trying to find out if you have a new version coming out SOON? – or do I need to instruct them to buy the Pro-Version — if that has been updated to eliminate these issue already?
Thank you.
]]>Hi there,
My site had been working fine – and I do love your widgets by the way! Unfortunately, after upgrading to latest version, I get the following error when trying to access my site:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /wp-content/plugins/proper-widgets/the-widgets/proper-posts-widget.php on line 145
My temporary fix was to comment out part of the proper-posts-widget.php as I’m not using that widget anyway – but that’s clearly not the ideal solution.
]]>My image (i’ve tried 2 separate ones)
are not showing up in the right side bar widget on my website.
Instead, a blank “?” appears.
Please check https://www.livingbrilliancenow.com to see and assist me.
Victoria
]]>I would like to be able to create an excerpt or limit length of the content shown when using the Proper RSS widget. Any ideas on how I could achieve this?
]]>In the proper posts widget I would like to sort the posts on alphabetical order. However it seems to sort on post date or some other random way. Hope you can help, thanks anyway.
]]>Hello, since wordpress version 3.7 and even in 3.7.1 I get an error like
Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /var/www/web116/html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 1286 when I go to my network-settings. The PlugIn itself works, but I get this error. If I rename the plugin-folder, it works again, I can update everything and so on. But that is no real solution…
Greetings,
Drongo
Hi.
We have a website and have installed proper-widgets for an rss feed. the widget is working, but the titles being displayed have the actual html codes instead of the actual symbol. for double quotes it shows as " … for single quote it shows as ' followed by a semicolon.
please let us know if there is a fix or anything we can do to fix this issue.
Thanks
]]>I thought I would pass along this request and code “fix”
I’ve built a number of sites and many of my clients are beginning to request/require that Accessiblity be addressed. One simple accessibility item is ensuring that all images have “alt” text that describes the image. This is done for the blind or those who require a screen reader.
Your Linked Image Widget doesn’t provide a way for me to specify the alt (or title which appears as a tooltip in most browsers)
I’ve modified your widget to provide the functionality. I’ll try and paste my changes to the proper-linked-image-widget file below.
<?php
class proper_linked_image_widget extends WP_Widget {
function proper_linked_image_widget() {
/* Widget settings. */
$widget_ops = array( 'classname' => __FUNCTION__);
/* Create the widget. */
$this->WP_Widget( 'proper-linked-image-widget', 'Proper Linked Image', $widget_ops);
$this->widget_fields = array(
array(
'label' => 'Image URL *',
'type' => 'url',
'id' => 'image',
'description' => 'A direct link to an image',
'default' => '',
),
array(
'label' => 'Link to *',
'type' => 'url',
'id' => 'link',
'description' => 'A direct link to where the clicked image will go',
'default' => '',
),
array(
'label' => 'Alt Text *',
'type' => 'text',
'id' => 'alt',
'description' => 'Alt Text used for accessibility and screen readers',
'default' => '',
),
array(
'label' => 'Open link in new tab?',
'type' => 'checkbox',
'id' => 'target',
'description' => 'Should the link open in a new tab?',
'default' => '',
),
);
}
function widget($args, $instance) {
// Pulling out all settings
extract($args);
extract($instance);
// Output all wrappers
echo $before_widget . '
<div class="proper-widget proper-image-widget">';
// Set the link target
$target = isset($target) && $target === 'yes' ? ' target="_blank"' : '';
// Output the rest of the widget content
echo '
<a href="' . $link . '"' . $target . '><img title="' . $alt . '" alt="' . $alt . '" src="' . $image . '" class="aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%"></a>
</div>
' . $after_widget;
}
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
$instance = $old_instance;
$instance['image'] = filter_var($new_instance['image'], FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
$instance['link'] = filter_var($new_instance['link'], FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
$instance['target'] = isset($new_instance['target']) && $new_instance['target'] === 'yes' ? 'yes' : '';
$instance['alt'] = $new_instance['alt'];
return $instance;
}
function form($instance) {
for ($i = 0; $i < count($this->widget_fields); $i++) :
$field_id = $this->widget_fields[$i]['id'];
$this->widget_fields[$i]['field_id'] = $this->get_field_id($field_id);
$this->widget_fields[$i]['field_name'] = $this->get_field_name($field_id);
endfor;
proper_output_widget_fields($this->widget_fields, $instance);
}
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("proper_linked_image_widget");') );Love the plug-in but I am getting auto submissions daily and need to know if there is a way to strengthen the “human submission” requirement of this plug-in.
]]>Hi there! I’m new to customizing widgets and I have had no luck using other contact form widgets. Thank you for developing something that is functional and easy to use, even for a novice!
I do have a few quick questions, though. How could one restrict or limit the size of the comment field (where the person filling out the form would enter their comment, live on the site)?
I’m trying to use your comment form as a sidebar widget – as no other sidebar widget I could find would work. I’ve tested the functionality of the form as a widget and it worked great – but, you have to resize the comment box for it to all fit in the sidebar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Secondly, my “Thank you” message is displaying, as I’d hoped after a submission – however, the text is quite large. How can I edit that? Thanks!!
https://www.samolmsteadlaw.com
(Using the Craft Theme by Theme Trust)
Linked image it not showing .
Dubblechecked imageurl and link.
Do you know what the problem can be? Thanks
]]>If there’s an error in a linked RSS feed using the Proper RSS widget, it stops the loading of the rest of the page the widget resides on. Beyond the obvious problems, it’s also caused javascript errors on pages when some JS codes hooked to the wp_footer don’t load.
Can you implement a more graceful fail when there’s an RSS error? (I’ve never dealt with coding for RSS feed, so I’m not sure how terrible this would be.)
Thanks for an otherwise great plugin.
]]>I do not have a Links (Blogroll) widget. So I added Proper Widgets. The Proper Links widget appeared under Appearance->Widgets, I dragged it to the sidebar, reloaded the site and it appears. Cool. But, I do not get a Links menu item allowing me to create any links!
How do I get that?
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