Widget ignores choice of category

Hello Cmkl,
can you place the widget a second time just beside your first usage in the widget area at the bottom on the left?
Then do a another test and reinstall the widget. This mean replace it from the widget area and replace it again?
Greetings
Daniel

Hi Daniel.

I placed the widget again in ‘Footer Widget Area 1’, with the same settings as the first. The second widget was still showing news category rather than the sponsors category.

I changed the settings for the second widget placement to show another category (Affiliations) and still it showed the ‘news’ category.

I also note that above the footer the plugin is used to show a list of posts in the News category. That *is* where I want to display the news, so that’s great. But I cannot change categories on that instance of the widget either.

Then I moved the widgets from the footer area to the inactive widget area.

Then I deactivated the plugin on the plugins admin page. Then I deleted the plugin files and re-installed the plug in.

I re-created the widget in Footer area 1. It is exhibiting the same behaviour. Despite being configured to show posts from the ‘Sponsors’ category, it’s showing posts from the ‘News’ category.

Hey Daniel,

1.) Thank you for your quick response and for the support.

2.) I think there is a conflict (maybe a namespace issue, I don’t know) with your plugin and another plugin I’d installed to keep certain post categories out of archive pages and other things.

The plugin that was conflicting with yours was mCatFilter (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mcatfilter/)

Once I disabled it, all the widgets made with your plugin worked as expected.

3.) I’ve left mCatFilter disabled and will find another way to get that functionality. Without yours I cannot build my site.

4.) Thanks again.