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I still receive the same error with 3.1beta1

Yes. I did find this. The topic is over 5 years old though. None of the links work anymore.

Maybe another way to ask is there a way of inserting php code at certain points in the wordpress menu?

I concur with gcoghill. If you have a menu with a tonne of stuff in it at the bottom, like settings or some convoluted plugin with a lot of screens, it will run off the screen at the bottom.

Definitely a time saver!

Have you submitted this to TRAC? I would really like this included in future versions of WordPress. If you haven’t I will…

First of all I consider myself to be an advanced user of wordpress. I am not a coder and therefore do rely on developers heavily. Theme hacking is fun though!… usually with a lot of errors along the way.
I use wordpress as a CMS for clients and groups and non-profits. I have about 20 sites that use wordpress now.

-So I have two requests-
1: I would really like to see Widgets made into something more. The multiple instances of widgets is really good.

With all my wordpress setups I always install
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/advanced-text-widget/
Advanced Text Widget
and
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/display-widgets/
Display widgets

I need to be able to control where the widgets get displayed, and what is in those widgets. Personally I think if this was in core, then plugin developers could take it further.

2: More options on how content can get input (and modified) on the site by the end-user.

I am totally fine inputing text with WP2.9 text editor. My clients are generally not OK with it. My clients mangle msword documents nevermind an online text editor with so many finicky buttons, it is daunting for them. Some of my clients have 5 pages of instructions on how to input text (yes grandpa instructions)… and then I still have to go back and clean it up. Yes I use custom fields and all that stuff.

My dream is where
I can build a form which interacts with content in the wp database. (categories are selectable by a dropdown menu etc)
My clients can input OR modify data via these forms. (change store hours. etc.)
-These forms could become pieces of code like widgets-

I know there are a couple of plugins like TDMOF
https://thedeadone.net/download/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/
This plugin looks perfect, but, I am a wordpress user, not a coder.
This is an extremely complicated plugin when you look at all the options it provides. I also think all these options are needed because it is not in core.

I’ll be glad to respond to any questions or issues or hear about how this is not a good way forward for wordpress core. Take care, and I thank the wordpress development team for all the work you have done over the years.

This will probably be a long post…
The theme K2 has officially dumped the sidebar manager.
The sidebar manager is a AJAX powered widget manager much like your plugin, more graceful, and well probably too much of a headache to maintain anymore.

I have some sites that relied on the SBM quite heavily and am now in the process of manually changing over to SCM.

1: Can you please make it so that the “title” is diaplayed next to the customized widget? If you have ten or more “text” widgets you can’t tell one from the other.

2: backup / restore would be really nice!
is this of interest or help in this regard?
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/sk-wp-settings-backup/

3: There is a very dangerous button called “reset” which potentially can erase many many customizations. I would like to get rid of this button if I could! Or move it somewhere else? Or have a “are you sure” option as well.

Thank-you for writing this plugin. I think you may have a bunch of new followers now that K2 SBM is dumped!

This is a very good plugin.
I’m having a slightly different problem around having “blank” custom fields.

I would like to force appending a single space into a text area to prevent the sql-data entry from disappearing.

I have 12 posts (of a specific category) which are cleared (not deleted) via cron at midnight every day. These posts are then editable by editors through-out the day with up to the minute information via the custom-fields plugin.