Inserting the same widget multiple times

  • Resolved donmcleman

    (@donmcleman)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, Anmari, thank you for a really useful plugin. I am so pleased to have found it! It does just what I want.

    One small criticism: in several of the posts in this forum people have asked how to insert the same plugin multiple times. Your response is usually ‘It can’t be explained better than it already has been’.

    In the instructions you’ve told people how to obtain the id of the plugin to include in the shortcode but you haven’t actually shown what to write.

    The text required is:[do_widget id=”xyz”]

    Could you add that text to the instructions to make it clearer for other users?

    Thank you again for a very useful plugin.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/

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  • Plugin Author anmari

    (@anmari)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    You mean like here on the installation page: (less than 10 lines down)
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/installation/ ?

    which is also linked to from the bottom of the widget front page with “please read”?.

    There is also a “settings” page (although there are no settings) which spells it all out.
    http://i.imgur.com/gPwtGGT.jpg

    Clearly though things need to be made more obvious somehow. I do see that somehow the settings page is not linked on the plugin page, so not that helpful.

    Thread Starter donmcleman

    (@donmcleman)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Firstly, on the installation page you link to it says id=tag-cloud-3 without inverted commas whereas elsewhere in this forum you have used inverted commas.

    Whatever you thought was a good idea to write in a section called ‘Please read’ should also appear in the instructions on the first page here or FAQ along with the other installation instructions that you’ve chosen to include. Also a support thread that deals with this has been pinned to the top of the support page yet you don’t mention it there either.

    You are at last correct in your final paragraph ‘Clearly though things need to be made more obvious somehow’. The first rule of making things obvious is to make them consistent.

    Plugin Author anmari

    (@anmari)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Yup should be consistent, but for a free plugin one can hardly expect perfection. Quotes don’t matter unless name has spaces. Probably was tired that night – either should work.

    ‘Stuck’ topics a bit all over the place so have redone that .
    added plugin action link and generally tried to make things more obvious.

    Sorry if I sound grumpy. I appreciate you are trying to help – this plugin generates the most annoying support at times – sometimes detailed accusatory questions about the widgets (which really cannot be expected to be supported here), or “why doesn’t it look good out the box” when the combination of unknown themes with unknown widgets is impossible to control the effects of.

    Thread Starter donmcleman

    (@donmcleman)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, Amari, thanks for getting back so quickly – my overall message is still the same, ‘Thank you for a really useful plugin’.

    Thanks for saying ‘I appreciate you are trying to help’ – I really am!

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