Strange Widget Issues

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October 15, 2014 at 5:49 pm #18482

Jason Emanuelson
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Good day,

We are looking at deploying a website for a small city with GeoDirectory as part of the main feature set. The website is running WordPress 3.9.2 with Enfold as the theme. The website has a lot of widgets that were built to handle navigation, each linked to menus. In other words, nothing too dramatic or complicated.

As we were about to hit the directory phase, we installed the plug-in with intent to use the Enfold pack to bind it to the theme and then a few of your extras, but we encountered a ripple of sorts. Upon installation and activation, all of our widgets seemed to get messed up. At first, we could not understand what the issue was, but after going through and one-by-one looking at what happened upon activation, it seems as if GD wants to assign pre-configured widgets upon activation. When that happens, it seems to slide the widget contents of each of our widgets down, making each out of sync with their menus. It truly is a rather strange phenomenon, but after spending much time trying to find any other explanation, I wanted to bring it to your attention and see if you might have any ideas, suggestion, etc. We really want to use this plug-in and have hopes of deploying it to other cities in the future.

Thank you again for what looks to be a wonderful addition. It was what we were after from the beginning and look forward to being able to use it and let end-users benefit.

October 15, 2014 at 8:20 pm #18513

Paolo
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Hi,

GeoDirectory doesn’t assign pre-configured widgets upon activation, it just creates it’s widgets areas.

When adding dummy data some widgets are assigned to various GD widget areas, but our plugin shouldn’t move your widgets in any way.

I wasn’t able to reproduce this on my enfold test site. Can you please provide a URL and wp admin credentials of a website where we can see this happening?

Thanks

October 15, 2014 at 8:32 pm #18515

Jason Emanuelson
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October 15, 2014 at 9:12 pm #18525

Paolo
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Hi,

I had a quick look at this and I can’t find a quick fix.
I need to report it to Stiofan and the development team, we will keep you posted.

Please keep those admin credentials active until advised. Stiofan will look into this probably tomorrow morning (uk time)

Thanks,

October 15, 2014 at 9:17 pm #18527

Paolo
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BTW, I suspect the problem comes from the 10 “Inactive Sidebar (not used)” at the bottom of your widgets page.

Even though they are empty, this message appears:

This sidebar is no longer available and does not show anywhere on your site. Remove each of the widgets below to fully remove this inactive sidebar.

GD could only trigger the error, without being the culprit…

October 15, 2014 at 9:28 pm #18528

Jason Emanuelson
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October 15, 2014 at 9:32 pm #18529

Jason Emanuelson
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October 15, 2014 at 9:43 pm #18530

Paolo
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Can you try activating GD now and see if it still messes up the order of widgets in custom widgets areas?

Let us know,

October 15, 2014 at 10:09 pm #18534

Jason Emanuelson
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October 16, 2014 at 7:12 pm #18638

Jason Emanuelson
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October 17, 2014 at 9:51 am #18686

Stiofan O’Connor
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Hi I made a change in admin_install.php, can you see if the problem still persists please.

Thanks,

Stiofan

October 17, 2014 at 3:38 pm #18725

Jason Emanuelson
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October 18, 2014 at 2:14 pm #18815

Stiofan O’Connor
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can you pass me FTP, some of the files i would like to debug i can’t access from wordpress.

Stiofan

October 18, 2014 at 4:25 pm #18829

Jason Emanuelson
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October 20, 2014 at 11:45 am #18920
Stiofan O’Connor
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Thanks for the FTP info. OK this is a Enfold issue, though the support blames this on a wordpress limitation http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/toppanel-plugin-messed-up-widgets-widget-areas-in-enfold/

That is not true, if you don’t name the widget area then it will be defaulted to a number but you could just give it a name see the array of sidebars:
```
...
 [sidebar-6] => Array
        (
            [0] => text-5
        )

    [sidebar-7] => Array
        (
            [0] => text-3
        )

    [geodir_home_top] => Array
        (
        )

    [sidebar-9] => Array
        (
            [0] => lym_ib_widget-5
            [1] => categories-2
        )
...
```
The only solution is to rearrange the widgets after GD activation or drag them to the inactive area and then put them back after activation.

Stiofan
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