sjthomas

Because that displays a list of dates. The setup I have is I’m using a home.php template file for the homepage. This doesn’t contain a typical list of posts. Hence I want to provide a link to a page listing posts, newest first, from every category.

I know, based on the template hierarchy, that I can use either archive.php or index.php to do this, but I’m struggling to dynamically generate a link to this page based on the user specified pretty link option.

Yep. The widgets functionality is now part of the core WordPress installation, not a plugin. Although it’s been like that for several versions (since version 2.2 in fact), which makes it odd that you’ve just come across this version (I would have expected it in 2.7). WordPress call the old widget plugin (the one you’re trying to activate) deprecated, meaning it’s no longer supported and has been replaced (and is also likely to stop working in a future version).

In 2.7 you set up your widgets on the Appearance > Widgets page, but it only works if the theme you’re using is set up to utilise widgets. Have you changed themes recently? I’ve heard of a problem where certain widgets get locked to certain themes.

Do you mean the comments against each post? This will vary depending on the theme you’re using. Typically it’s called comments.php or comments-form.php or something similar in your template’s directory. Look for the textarea html tag.

You may want to look at the Redirection plugin (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/redirection/) if you want to redirect. Otherwise, you may want to make it so that your new URLs are the same as your old ones. In the first example, is “Adobe-Flex” the category the post is in? If so, you can change your permalink structure to /%category%/%postname%/ although as the codex page says, it’s not recommended for performance reasons.

What version did you upgrade from? WordPress brought widget management into the ore a couple of versions ago, the problem you’re seeing is because the default WordPress widget definition is conflicting with the plugin you’re trying to activate because they do the same thing (and specifically, use the same declarations).

You may want to start here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets_Api

I don’t have any experience with the pre 2.2 widget plugin, but I’d say the best bet is to uninstall it and move your widgets over to the default WordPress implementation. But YMMV. Hope that helps.