Posts with individual widgets?

i suggested to someone else that they ‘roll their own’ widget using html put into a custom field in a post. then use say

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/

to produce a widget that does

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post_widget_1_content', true);

then the widget would contain the HTML that you put in the ‘post_widget_1_content’ custom field on that post

alanft, thank you. That’s a very nice idea.

However, I couldn’t get any output. Tried it on two blogs (WP 2.7) just to be sure. It seems that the field ist not recognized or the content of it is not found. Have you tried it lately?

you have put something in a custom field of that name, right?

perhaps the php needs the $post variable imported via
global $post
first?

i troubleshoot PHP variables with lines like
echo "<pre>"; print_r($post); echo "</pre>"
which shows you a nice representation of the variables in question. (in this case $post is usually a very large array.)

alanft, thanks. This is true, “global $post” is needed.

But it is alsway on ID 1 regardless of the post I am showing. Any further idea?

Btw. there was a plugin that seemed to be doing this: Widget Changer: https://maketecheasier.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-widget-changer

Unfortunately it is not compatible with WP 2.7 and the author is not developing it any further.

is ther something similar somewhere?

Alright, as a final note: The Advanced Custom Field Plugin is the way to go: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/advanced-custom-field-widget/

It is very good and solves this problem completely ??

Hi I have troubles placing individual posts into individual posts on my two sidebars? Could some one please help?
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