Title: Confusing Plugin Operation
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Confusing Plugin Operation

 *  [mkormendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkormendy/)
 * (@mkormendy)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confusing-plugin-operation/)
 * I think this plugin could have a better straight-forward explanation of what 
   it does, or more functionality to live up to its name.
 * As far as I can tell from using it, this plugin works like this:
 * 1. you create a widget in a sidebar on one sub-site
    2. you then tell that widget
   to work only on another sub-site (and only one — not all, or some)
 * That’s it??
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-widgets-context/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-widgets-context/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Nícholas André](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholas_io/)
 * (@nicholas_io)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confusing-plugin-operation/#post-7590227)
 * Hi mkormendy,
 * The plugin works like this: You create a widget in a sidebar on one sub-site 
   and you can set it up to run as it were running on another sub-site.
 * Let’s take the Recent Posts Widget example. If you are on sub-site X, and you
   add a Recent Posts Widget and set it up to run in the context of sub-site Y. 
   The widget will return the recent posts from sub-site Y instead of the sub-site
   X. It basically switches the context (database tables and everything else) so
   the widget can run using data from the selected site.
 * I’ll update the README in the next update to make it clear.
 *  [MeOnline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webber2012/)
 * (@webber2012)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confusing-plugin-operation/#post-8488137)
 * I have tried the plugin but it does not collect the content from the source site.
   On the source site, the content of a text widget needs to be transferred to the
   goal site. In my case the widget is a footer widget as well, so no sidebar.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [MeOnline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webber2012/).
 *  Thread Starter [mkormendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkormendy/)
 * (@mkormendy)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confusing-plugin-operation/#post-8489772)
 * Webber .. why don’t you create a new thread instead of hijacking mine.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mkormendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkormendy/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confusing-plugin-operation/#post-8489772)
 * Status: not resolved