Comments on: Better Text Widget

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:52:25 +0000

Hi AJ,
Okay, I’m giving it a shot in an old 2.9 install I have on my localhost, and I’m coming up with a couple of issues as well.

I’m going to fix the code up there – I’ve tested it in 2.9 *and* 3.0 – and thank you for pointing it out for me!

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:02:44 +0000

Hi Shelly….yes, tried it in WP 3 and also another install (locally on xampp) with 2.9.2 as well but didn’t work. However, your new excerpt code change worked for 2.9.2 (just have to control how much of excerpt shows) but looks like something else is affecting it in WP 3.0 still.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:49:28 +0000

Thanks Daniel – I’ll fix that now.

AJ – are you running WP 3.0? Because I had the same problem when I upgraded to 3.0 (This might also work in earlier versions, I don’t know. Before, what’s above worked fine – I just noticed the issue in 3.0).

Basically, you change these two lines:
$thispost = get_post($id); $excerpt = $thispost->post_excerpt;

to this:
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:24:08 +0000

This one function widget is definitely going to the top of my list as favorites and thanks also to Daniel about that curly bracket because it helped. Anyway, everything is great, except I can’t seem to get excerpts in the front-end. It’s just the image and the read more link.

By: Daniel Wiener

Daniel Wiener — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:42:45 +0000

Thanks for the code. It is very helpful, both in itself and as a tool to help learn how to make widgets.

But one thing you need a “}” after

function easier_text_widgets() {
register_widget( ‘Easier_Text_Widget’ );

It breaks without it.

Thanks

Daniel