Tabbed Widgets picky with 2.8?

Vertical Tabbed Widgets would be perfect for my setup.

Okay I’m an idiot! Next time, I should actually test things out before making a conclusion!

Roger is right… it is a simple jQuery issue.

Follow-up… Tabbed Widgets on 2.8 doesn’t detect all widgets available.

How many does it detect?

Any further progress on a 2.8-compatible update?

Roger, I have read your solution, but I don’t know how to fix this and where to look (wich files of the plugin).

I am also very desperatly in need of this excellent plugin…

I’ll be glad to do some beta testing on my local server at home. Just need to know where to look to try to fix this issue.

I have never used this plugin before, but it sounds like it could be very useful. I found a couple of plugins that I thought might give me tabbed widgets.

– Tabbed Widgets
– Fun with Sidebar Tabs

Neither of which appear to be currently working. (I believe I am running on WordPress version 2.7.1)

If anyone knows of a tabbed widget that supports 2.7.1 or greater, please let me know. In the meantime, I’ll keep an eye on this thread and see if it gets it’s support updated.

Thanks,
Geoff

@jeffwithag

Tabbed Widgets works fine in 2.7.1, but is buggy in 2.8+.

@r-a-y

Yeah, sorry that should read 2.8.1, my mistake.

Echoing everyone’s pleas for an update. We love this plugin and like alsd had just found it and were about to donate, when the wordpress changed & left the plug in not working.
Unlike alsd we were of a different mentality. We wanted to wait to see if the plugin ever was updated before donating. We would love to believe it will be and would gladly donate if it is, however now two months later it doesn’t seem to be of much interest to the author. I hope we are wrong.
We’ve tried to find Roger’s fix, but searches through the files have led to dead ends and we aren’t code savvy enough to understand how to fix this. If anyone could explain further we’d greatly appreciate it.
Or if anyone has found other options I’m sure all of us would love to hear them. Thanks for being such a great community.

Hi all. Looks like the plugin developer has a new toy https://konstruktors.com/blog/random-musings/1535-oscar-24h/#more-1535 .

All WordPress users are being asked to upgrade to 2.8.4 because of a big security issue and this plugin is going on a year without an upgrade which is holding a lot of people back from upgrading.

Can we at least have an estimate on when an update will be available or let us know if the plugin is being abandoned so those using it can move on.

Looks like the Section Widget plugin may be an alternative for WordPress 2.8+:

https://blogs.ubc.ca/support/plugins/section-widget/

If you need to run PHP code within the widget, using the PHP-Exec plugin with the Section Widget plugin should work:

https://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/

Just make sure you check the “Everywhere” box in the Section Widget when adding your tabs so the tabs will show up, and to also configure PHP-Exec and check the box in the settings to have PHP run within widgets. I haven’t fully tested but copying some content from Tabbed Widgets in 2.71 to the Section Widget in 2.8.4 seemed to do the trick. Plus there are 25 CSS styles for the tabs. Good luck.

Thanks for the link, btlewand.

Here’s another alternative:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/sidebartabs/

Will be testing these two out.

Okay the Section Widget plugin looks like the way to go. Pity it can’t use existing widgets like kaspars’ plugin does. sidebarTabs can use existing widgets, but can only handle one tabbed widget, which is a shame.

One plus about Section Widget is how you can order the tabs via drag ‘n drop!

Another method to input PHP in Section Widget is with the author’s own PHP Shortcode plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/php-shortcode/