[Plugin: Tabbed Widgets] Chasing My Tail – Can’t Get TW Working!

  • I’ve been running around all over the Internet, for a couple weeks, looking for the answer to how I can get TW working. Most of the time, the suggestions I come across do not match what I find within my files.

    Here’s the latest suggestion I got from Kaspars on his web page before he closed the comments:

    “Scott, (1) your theme needs to apply unique identifiers to all widgets, which it currently doesn’t do. Browse around this website to see how to add that functionality…”

    On his website, I found a post that explained how to add unique identifiers. I went to my server and grabbed the functions.php from /illuminodyssey.com/html/wp-content/themes/siteground-wp33

    When I opened the file, I found this:
    —————–

    <?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));

    —————–
    I’m still new at this but it looks like the code is correct for the unique identifiers. Still, TW isn’t showing up.

    I can find it listed in the Plugins list – it’s active. When I go to Widgets list, it’s only listed as an available widget if I go to an “invisible widget area.”

    If I go the the TW’s Settings page, I can select my options and update but it still doesn’t show up on my blog.

    Does anyone know how to fix this? If not, can anyone suggest another tabbed widget plugin that is easier to set up and use?

    Thanks.

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  • Kaspars

    (@kasparsd)

    “When I go to Widgets list, it’s only listed as an available widget if I go to an “invisible widget area.”

    This is impossible. All widgets are available for all sidebars. Please check if you have selected ‘Show All Widgets’ in the ‘Available Widgets’ dropdown menu under Widget Management.

    p.s. Your functions.php code is correct, indeed.

    Thread Starter mentis

    (@mentis)

    You’re right. I got TW widget to show up as one of the options. I added the it to my current widgets list but it’s still not showing up in my side bar even though I have the unique identifiers code properly inserted. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

    Any other ideas? I hope we can eventually get this working, I think it will be a very useful widget. Any idea you suggest will be greatly appreciated.

    ~Scott

    Thread Starter mentis

    (@mentis)

    Kaspars,

    I’ve been struggling with this widget for weeks. There doesn’t seem to be another widget like this, that I have been able to find or I would have tried to use that one already since I have been unable to get this one working.

    I mean no offense by that. Your widget looks really great, which is why I decided to try it in the first place. I know you’re probably a busy person and may not have time to help everyone. But, I would be very happy to send you a donation if you can help me get this working.

    Thanks for all your effort and for this widget. I look forward to eventually having it working.

    ~Scott
    https://illuminodyssey.com – Adventures in thinking!

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