Shape 5

Hi

The Demo on Soul Search: How to configure widget styles has an option to place the widget on a specific page (see attached WidgetConfigure2.jpg)

I only have options to place widgets on all or front page. The specific page is not available. (see attached WidgetConfigure1.jpg)

Is there a setting I must change?

I found one post on S_5 extended widget, which did not solve my problem

Would appreciate your assistance

You may need to enable "Target by URL" under "Settings->Widget Context".  Once that is enabled, to target a specific page, you just put the page slug in the Target by URL area.

Are you saying you didn't figure it out, or you did?  Your reply is only a quote of what you already said; if you don't provide information about why you're posting again, I won't be able to help.

My apologies. I meant to say thank you for the quick response.

Context Widget seems to be problematical when trying to show a widget on a specific page. I have gone through most of the WordPress blogs and nobody seems have a definite answer.

I have tried other widget page control plugins, and there are some great ones (Conditional Widget), but they don't seem compatible with some of the core Shape5 plugins.

So I am back to square one.  Trying to figure out how I should formulate the URL. Tried / before and after, tried the wild cards, no luck

Hopefully someone from The Shape5 community can help.

Thank you

Hi
Just adding to my previous query.  The plugins I have tried that conflicts with S5_Tabshow are:-
Conditional Widgets and Display Widgets  (Both very good.  It lists all you pages and categories.  Similar to Joomla in placing a module on a specific page and position)

Also found that Shortcodes Ultimate conflicts with S5_template plug ins.  Pity, great product as well.

Looking forward to some advise

Rocky

I have never had any issues with getting Widget Context to properly show or hide widgets on a specific page.  If you install the Shaper in another location temporarily and go through some of hte widgets, you should be able to see how it is used for the demo content. 

I always use the wildcard method.  I also have the "post-name" permalink structure.  For example, if I want the Accordion Menu widget to only show on the page that talks about it, I use *accordion-menu* as the URL target in the Widget Context settings.

I'm not exactly sure why the other widget hiding plugins don't work correctly with TabShow, but it is most likely because TabShow (and any other S5 widget that has sidebar positions) adds its own sidebars at a different time in the site load process (it has to, or the positions would be above the main site positions), and because of the timing, some of the Widget Context style plugins can't properly detect the plugin-created positions.

What exactly seems to be the problem with Shortcodes Ultimate?  The framework has quite a few shortcodes of its own that I've added, but there shouldn't be any conflicts unless it's trying to add shortcodes with the same name, and even then, it should just override the existing ones.  You can find the complete list of shortcodes for this theme on this page of the demo. (http://shape5.com/demo/wp/soul-search/features/vertex-features/shortcodes)

As it says on the demo:

Hi Tristan

Thanks for the reply.

I have managed to solve the show widget on specific page.  Your suggestion  made me realize that the Permalink setting determines the format used in the URL.  Unfortunately this is not clear in any of the widget documentation. My setting was on default, so "/?page_id=2222" did the trick.

I will try to eliminate which short code conflicts with the S5_Tab show

You are right, there should not be a conflict.  Short codes Ultimate uses a user defined prefix in its short code to prevent any conflict.

Not sure if I should post this a a new topic, bu I get a fatal error when trying to activate NextGen Gallery within the S5_Template environment.  Even after de-activating all of the S5 and other plug-ins.  Have you come accross this before.

Thank you for your assistance.  WordPress is a different mindset to Joomla

   I have not heard anything about that before.  What is the error that you're getting?  Does it actually tell?  If not, try setting WP_DEBUG to true in your wp-config.php file, that should show the errors that would normally be hidden.  Most sites have at least 1-5 warnings or errors that can be ignored, but being able to see the errors you do have should help give an idea what's happening with the plugin.


   It really is.  There are a lot of similarities with Shape5 stuff because I have to "convert" the Joomla releases to run on WordPress, but I've done my best to get things closer to working the way WP users expect.

Thank you

I enjoy the Shape5 templates.  Slowly getting to know WP.  I think it is earier for end-users to modify.