Comments on: PHP Code Widget

By: Ankit J

Ankit J — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:19:20 +0000

Do blogspot have same gadget like this plugin where I can paste my php code.

By: rapidasia

rapidasia — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:32:00 +0000

thanks for your plugin

I’m trying to use toggles in the php widget but the tricky part is that they are loaded from a php file called as an includes.

in the functions.php I added
add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);
add_filter(‘widget_execphp’, ‘do_shortcode’);

Loading the php file works. Manually entering the toggle in the widget works (text widget and php widget). but the toggle doesn’t work if it is included in a file. any idea why, and how to resolve that? I know it isn’t really a ‘problem’ with your plugin but I thought you might know. regards,

By: hurraken

hurraken — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:11:43 +0000

Ok, thank you anyway

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:05:11 +0000

Well, if you’re not using the plugin and have put code in functions.php instead, then I have no idea what you’re doing or why you’re having trouble.

Regardless of this, this is not a problem with the plugin. It is not a bug. It will not be “fixed”.

By: hurraken

hurraken — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:03:40 +0000

I made a copy of the DB and of the files.

All the plugins are active. All the widgets appear on the transfered site except the PHP code widget.

I needn’t to active php code widget because its code is written in functions.php.

Could it be the problem ?

thank you for your help Otto !

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:57:27 +0000

“Made a copy of the site” is so vague as to be useless. What do you mean by “made a copy”, exactly?

If you copied the database, then widgets would indeed get transferred, but widgets created by plugins would be removed on the first load of the new site because the plugins on the new site were not activated yet. If the plugin is inactive then the widget is missing and so WP will remove the widget from the sidebar when it sees that.

By: hurraken

hurraken — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:53:08 +0000

O i think i didn’t explain very well.

I didn’t export, i made a copy of my site in order to install it to another server…

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:51:37 +0000

Widgets of any kind are not included in a WordPress export/import operation. The PHP Code widget is not special in this respect. NO widgets will be preserved in moving a site from one server to another. It simply doesn’t work that way.

If you migrate the database as a whole, then yes, widgets will be preserved in such a transfer. However, if you don’t activate the plugin on the new site before doing that, then any widgets made by plugins will get removed on the first load of the page, because the code for them isn’t active on the new site yet.

The PHP Code widget is almost exactly identical to the built in Text widget, with only one minor change to allow PHP Code to work.

By: hurraken

hurraken — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:46:08 +0000

Thank you for your quick reply Otto !

All other widgets are present except php code widgets…

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:23:55 +0000

Widgets of any sort don’t migrate between servers. They’re not part of the export/import process.