Widget Plugin not working

Looks like this is fixed now. Marking as Resolved.

-tg

I cant get this to work…. i have installed and activated the plugin but i do not see the sidebar thing in presentation for any theme at all….

In order to see the sidebar widgets under the presentation menu, the theme you are using must support widgets. No support = no new menu option.

I’m now getting the same problem with Firefox 1.5.0.4 / Apache /Linux w/Cpanel. There are notes on the Scriptaculous site mentioning issues with Firefox 1.5.0.4?

“Sortable not defined” is there error i’m getting on the Widgets admin page.

I’m having the same problem as miltonalmeida and seoidiot, and I’m using a theme that supports widgets. I customized some of the CSS for Dark Maple, a supposedly widget-ready theme:

https://www.transycan.net/blogtest/2006/04/11/dark-maple-ready-for-widgets/

A bit of an ID:10T error here, but I still don’t have the problem solved. Turns out I was using an old version of Dark Maple and once I updated it, the plugin started working.

Only, then I tried to set it for multiple sidebars and now I can’t connect to the blog at all. I’ve emailed my tech support about that issue, but can someone here clarify the directions on how to use multiple sidebars so I don’t mess this up again? I’m not a PHP programmer so this wasn’t immediately clear to me. The directions state:

>Instead of register_sidebar() you should use >register_sidebars(n) where n is the number of sidebars. >Then place the appropriate number in the dynamic_sidebar() >function, starting with 1.

I assume this means that my functions.php file should be this:

<?php

if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) )
register_sidebars(5);

?>

Does this mean that in my sidebar.php it should say this:

?php if ( function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(5) ) : else : ?>

I think it means that you have to use a separate if statement (like what you posted) for each area you’re calling a “sidebar”. That would mean that your first if statement would be:

<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?> – which would pull the widgets from the Sidebar 1 in the widget config screen.

And you would do the same for the rest of them, with the variable incrementing by one each time you used the if statement, so each if statement accesses a different sidebar and widget selection.

Thanks for the help! I just want to make sure I understand. You’re saying that if I had three sidebars, that in the sidebar.php file I would have this:

<?php
if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else :
if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else :
if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(3) ) : else :
?>

I have many errors….. can i fix the problem?

I have fixed it. There were two bugs,

• sidebar_admin_head is not called
• The script passed the full path of the javascript files (full path in your hard drive) to the browser and the browser is not able to load the javascripts.

After fixing the first one, I see the widgets in the admin menu but unable to drag it. Then I found that the path to the javasctipts are wrong in the <script> tag. Now both the bugs are fixed and uploaded the updated widgets.php in url below

https://www.blisspark.com/wp-widgets-fix/widgets.zip

none of thes fixes allow me to use the text, RSS widgets. when i click ‘save’, the admin bar disappears.