Ability to assign widgets to a page

Hi andyx2v,

I’m open to suggestions for how this should be implemented.

As a WW setting, I could allow the admin to select the minimum role required. Or, it could be a text field where the admin must type in a specific capability.

Any other thoughts of preferences?

Hi Jonathon

I think the standard plugin way to do this would be to create a capability, e.g. ‘ww_assign_widgets’ that would be applied to certain roles by default, e.g. Admin. Then the user has the ability to change/add this capability to whichever role they like (through Members plugin for example).

I did fix this problem for me a while ago using the code below (which took hours!), but yeah a capability for it would be better. Thanks

/*
 * Becuase we removed the meta box, we have to manually tell widget wrangler
 * what the preset is for this page otherwise no widgets show up on the page,
 * plugin filters (look in admin-presets.php & widget-wrangler-admin.php)
 */

add_filter('widget_wrangler_save_widgets_alter', 'widget_wrangler_no_meta_box_fix', 999, 1);
function widget_wrangler_no_meta_box_fix($widgets) {

	global $widget_wrangler;

	$current_preset_id = get_option('ww_post_preset_id', false);

	if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {

		if ($current_preset_id === false) {
			$widget_wrangler->presets->new_preset_id = 1;
			if ($new_preset = $widget_wrangler->presets->get_preset(1)){
				$widgets = serialize($new_preset->widgets);
			}
		} else {
			$widget_wrangler->presets->new_preset_id = false;
			$widgets = false;
		}

	}

	return $widgets;
}