Steven Gliebe

Please reply if you are still needing help with this. Marking resolved until then due to two weeks without response.

Hello,

I’ll be glad to help. This is a free plugin and I volunteer my time supporting it. I’m unsure if you are asking for help with this plugin or asking for a recommendation as an alternative to WordPress. If the latter, try Squarespace.

If you are wanting help with the plugin then I have some information that may be useful to you:

– A .wie file contains widgets that you want to import into your WordPress site. Most often this is a file provided by a theme maker who has made available starter content for your website. Our plugin does not include .wie files. It imports them (and can also export them as a way to backup or transfer existing widgets).

– To install the plugin you’d go to to Plugins > Add New [in your WordPress admin area] and search for it, then install/activate it. You don’t need to download and unzip it.

Do you have a .wie file to import and if so where did it come from? What specifically are you wanting to accomplish? Knowing this will help me help you. Thank you.

Hello,

The plugin handles managing content and entering the maps API key but not displaying content or maps. The theme handles showing the maps. Since the theme you are using is a commercial theme, you’ll need to contact the seller for support at https://upthemes.com/contact/

Thank you, @juanfra. That’s very kind of you to put the code together. I’ll stick it in a plugin for @curlymop to install.

Thank you for your suggestion and code. Unfortunately, it would need to be applied by numerous plugins to specifically support yours.

It would be more practical for your plugin to modify all other plugins’ CPT registrations to add support for custom-fields since that is what your particular plugin requires. Many (probably most) plugins that register a CPT will utilize custom fields but not expose the core UI for users to manage their own fields, as the plugin will be providing its own input fields.

Otherwise, you may want to not allow users to enable the block in your settings for a CPT that does not already have custom-fields enabled, since that will only result in an error and create confusion for the user. If you’re going to code that, though, it would make more sense to just add support for custom-fields to the existing CPT’s to achieve automatic compatibility with all plugins.

@juanfra Hello, @curlymop is using our Church Content plugin.

Supporting custom-fields would let users add their own custom fields. That’s not something our users need so we do not enable it. It seems that since your plugin relies on it, it makes sense for your plugin to enable it for each custom post type enabled in your settings. Here is a possible approach:

https://zerowp.com/modify-cpt-arguments-after-it-was-registered/

Or, maybe there is a way the block can be designed to not rely on custom-fields being enabled?

Thanks for your help.

A theme or plugin can provide its own custom widget. This plugin can import/export data for any widget that is registered by an active theme or plugin on your site.

I’ll answer via our email ticket system. Thank you.

We received your support request in our help desk system and will help you there.

Do you see the same issue with dates on other post types?

Does the issue cease while all other plugins are inactive?

Which theme are you using?

This particular issue relates to the Exodus theme so please submit a support request at https://churchthemes.com/contact/

The post types and taxonomies have show_in_rest set to true, so you should be able to work with the REST API in some fashion. It may be that you need to add some custom code to handle fields: https://www.gavick.com/blog/adding-custom-fields-in-the-wordpress-rest-api

I have not toyed with this myself so cannot offer more information but here is the REST API handbook on www.ads-software.com and the plugin’s code on Github:

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/rest-api/
https://github.com/churchthemes/church-theme-content/

If they can’t be added manually then neither can they be imported. You’ll need to check that the plugin (or theme) that provides the actual widgets is installed before you can use the widgets (ie. manually add or import).

Instead of importing, you can go to Appearance > Widgets to re-add your two missing widgets in the normal manner. You can look at each widget’s settings on the old site and copy/paste or replicate them on the new site rather than exporting and importing them.

I am unsure why this is happening. I recommend in this case to manually re-add those two widgets to the second site.