Widget visibility on children pages

  • On the widget visibility option, the “include children” tick box, unticks itself after clicking save on the widget, for pages I am trying to hide the widget from.

    It only happens when hiding a widget from a page.
    It works fine for pages where I want the widget to appear and the child pages.

    The hide widget option does work on the page chosen from the drop down menu, just not the child pages and I can’t find a way to keep the box ticked.

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Could you walk me through the steps I can follow to reproduce the issue? I’ve tried the following, but it seems to work for me:

    1. I created a New Page under Pages > Add New. I published it.
    2. I created another one, set as child of the first page.
    3. I went to Appearance > Widgets.
    4. I dragged a new widget to one of the widget areas.
    5. I clicked on the Visibility button.
    6. I selected “Hide” if “Page” is “Parent Page name”
    7. The “Include Children” checkbox appeared.
    8. I checked it and clicked on the save button to save my changes.

    That worked for me, but maybe you do things a bit differently?

    Thank you!

    I’m having this same issue. I have a page with about 8 children pages. On all these pages, I want a specific text widget hidden. Selecting the parent page and “Include Children” checkbox does not work. As soon as I click SAVE, the checkbox deselects itself, and none of the child pages were impacted as desired. The parent page correctly updated, however.

    So now I have to add each child page as its own visibility rule. I sure hope there isn’t a maximum on these.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    @eddiemcham I’m afraid I’m still not able to reproduce on my end. Could you walk me through the exact steps you took to get to the problem, like I did above?

    Thanks!

    1. Create a set of parent, child, sibling, grandchild, and great-grandchild pages (the more complex, the better the test).
    2. Create a new widget.
    3. Click Visibility.
    4. Select Hide, if Page is the Parent page.
    5. Select the Include children checkbox.
    6. Click Save.

    Notice that just before the SAVE finishes, the Include children checkbox deselects itself. Then notice the new widget is hidden only on the Parent page, but none of its descendant pages. So I have to add each and every descendant page to the Visibility settings.

    I don’t recall if the same behavior happens if you select Show instead of Hide. I generally hide more widgets than I show, depending on the page.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by eddiemcham.
    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    I’m afraid I still can’t reproduce, with 5 levels of pages. Does this happen under Appearance > Customize > Widgets, or under Appearance > Widgets?

    Could you let me know if you have any other plugins or themes that create widgets or customizer panels on your site?

    Appearance > Widgets

    I have a screen capture, but this page won’t let me upload it. It only accepts image URLs on the web.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Could you contact us via this form and mention this thread? We’ll follow up and run some tests with you.

    Thanks!

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