Joe Dooley

@photoreview thanks for posting that link. Great suggestion.

I’ll have the update deployed by EOD tomorrow. I finished coding the customizer controls the other day and I’m going to test everything this afternoon.

Hi guys – I’m pretty busy right now but I should be able to I’ll push an update to make the plugin compatible with the customizer over the weekend.

Does anyone have any other feature requests for the upcoming update @mssbee @thinkmedia @rdw?

Thanks for your patience,
Joe Dooley

No problem.

To change the ordering within the genesis_footer hook you can add a priority. A lower priority prepends the footer widgets before the items in the footer whereas a higher priority appends the footer widgets after your footer content.

/**
 * Prepend Genesis footer widgets.
 */
remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );
add_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas', 1 );

/**
 * Append Genesis footer widgets.
 */
remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );
add_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas', 99 );

See the documentation for more information about the priority parameter for the add_action method.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Thanks,
Joe

You can reposition the footer widgets by unhooking them from their default location and then hooking them in the ideal location.

For example, the code below will move the footer widgets to the Genesis footer area. You can add this code to your functions.php.

Where do you want the footer widgets to render?

remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );
add_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas');

I’m resolving this issue as there is no problem with the plugin as long as you’re using PHP 5.6 or greater as described in the plugin documentation. I will save the post in case this helps anyone with the same problem. Thanks

Hi guys,

Sorry for the delayed response. What version of PHP are you guys using? If it’s 5.4 or less the error you’re receiving can be attributed to that. See here…

Since PHP 5.3 was deprecated August of 2014 I made the decision to stop supporting it to utilize some of PHP’s newer features to provide a better experience to everyone using the plugin. Based on the stats… Most WordPress sites are running PHP 5.6 or greater. We highly recommend upgrading to PHP 7.x.x. If your web host will not upgrade your server you should consider a managed WordPress hosting platform such as Pantheon or WP Engine.

If your running an up to date version of PHP please let me know so I can try to replicate and fix the problem.

If anyone needs help upgrading or has any other questions don’t hesitate to reach out. I’ll leave the ticket open until I get a confirmation for you guys. Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback. There is an active changelog.md that is updated on each iteration of the plugin already. Unfortunately, those updates weren’t being fed into the plugin update screen within the plugin dashboard.

Will make sure the changes are available on future updates. Thanks for letting me know.

I’m going to close this and mark as resolved.

Take care,
Joe

Sorry for the inconvenience. What’s the name of your Genesis child theme? Is it a Studiopress theme?

Thanks

Hi Sinisa,

I am going to close this thread because the plugin seems to be working fine on ricksmith.me . If I’m jumping the gun and there is a problem feel free to reach out to me directly by email or leave a message on my site.

Thank you,
Joe

Hi Sinisa,

Actually, I think I know what this is and I’m sure you figured this out already but Genesis Simple Footer Widgets uses namespaces to avoid class collisions with other libraries/frameworks/dependencies/etc. Namespaces are supported in PHP versions >= 5.3.

What version of PHP are you running on the ricksmith.me? If its PHP 5.2.x or less you’ll have to upgrade to 5.3.x or better yet PHP 7.x.x for full plugin support.

If you can’t upgrade your PHP I can help you modify the plugin to remove the namespaces if you still need help.

Thank you,
Joe Dooley

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Joe Dooley.

Hi @bajsolinowich. I apologize for the late reply. I must have deleted the email notification by accident.

I checked ricksmith.me and saw that your still using Genesis Simple Footer Widgets so I’m assuming you got everything figured out?

I haven’t seen this error before and there are a lot of active users. Nonetheless, isolated or a major problem I’m more than happy to help. Let me know if there is still a problem?

Thanks a lot!
Joe Dooley

Here is the log. I removed the password info because its a client site. The database tables aren’t being created though.

https://d.pr/n/1gROw/2jXLviXU

Hi- Yeah, it’s not resolved. I can’t get it to work. It wasn’t working going from local Vagrant VVV to Pantheon and now it’s not working going from local Kalabox to Pantheon. I can’t even change any of the settings. If I try to change the URL of the target, after clicking save and the page refreshes it still has the same URL in the target input box.

I also tried changing the radio to delete settings after uninstalling because I wanted to try a fresh install and that settings isn’t updating either.

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone help with this? Let me know if more details would help. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the great review!