With the release of WordPress 2.8 and the new widgets api many plugins have needed to be updated to work with the new widget interface - unfortunately it’s just the way it is.
Some plugin developers haven’t had the chance to catch up just yet – for example we have found that both the Ad-minister and cformsII plugins have a few issues when creating widgets in 2.8.
So… to help everyone out that uses these plugins (ourselves included) we have thrown together a couple of very simple widgets as temporary fixes until new versions of the plugins are released.
Please note: There is nothing fancy about these widgets, they are just temporary fixes and have no warranty or support what-so-ever and are only compatible with WordPress 2.8.x
Ad-minister Widget
This plugin adds an additional widget called “Ad-minister Widget” that lets you select (from a drop down list) the ad position that you would like to display.
As it is using the new API you can use as many of the widgets as you want. Please make sure you have ad-minister already installed and ads created before using the widget.
Works with Ad-minister 0.6
To install: unzip and copy the downloaded php file into your plugins directory and activate through the WordPress plugin interface.
Download here: Ad-minister Widget (859)
cformsII Widget
This plugin adds an additional widget called “cforms2 (fs)” that lets you enter a title for the widget and the number/id of the form you would like to display.
Please make sure you have cforms installed and forms created before using the widget.
Works with cformsII 10.5.2.
To install: unzip and copy the downloaded php file into your plugins directory and activate through the WordPress plugin interface.
Download here: cformsII Widget (351)
3 Comments
awesome improvement. really great. i was struggling with this. thank you very much!
Excellent work guys! The ad-minister workaround was exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks for the ad-minister work-around! it was driving me crazy.
Ad-minister still hasnt been updated, and the forums no longer appear to have support.
One question/request. Would it be possible to include the “Wrapper” data from the Widget Position in Ad-Minister when getting the ad info, to make assigning different styles to different ads easier?
Thanks.
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