Thread Starter
fprati
(@fprati)
Weird, today I can see yesterday’s changes, but if I make a change now I do not see any effect in the front-end. Is there some sort of restart or clearing to do and what exactly?
Plugin Contributor
Qurl
(@qurl)
Are you using a cache plugin?
Thread Starter
fprati
(@fprati)
Not that I know, just Yoast SEO, which I don’t think is involved. To note that every change I make to the widgets is immediately visible.
Plugin Contributor
Qurl
(@qurl)
Refreshing a page should be enough. When you don’t see a change immediately, then it has to be some kind of cache somewhere.
Thread Starter
fprati
(@fprati)
In fact the only working example was due to the fact I created a special sidebar that did not contain that widget (and I had forgotten about).
Conclusion: it does not work at all for me. I asked the theme author and they say they do nothing special with sidebars and widgets to prevent it from working. Therefore it must be something else… could there be a problem with WPML? There’s a tooltip message I do not understand: “Dynamic Widgets syncs with other languages of these pages via WPML”. Tried a few other things on the other languages as well and seen no improvement.
Any idea, please?
Plugin Contributor
Qurl
(@qurl)
Did you create the special sidebar within the theme, not some kind of dynamic sidebar plugin? Cause when you also use a plugin that creates sidebars for you, it doesn’t work very well together with Dynamic Widgets.
Thread Starter
fprati
(@fprati)
Not sure I understand what you mean by the “special sidebar“. I just added a regular text widget in an existing sidebar and changed it to dynamic. Then set its visibility (of that widget), but it still shows everywhere.
Plugin Contributor
Qurl
(@qurl)
Sorry, my mistake. I thought the special sidebar you were talking about was linked to the widget you’re trying to make dynamic.
Dynamic Widgets needs wp_head() to be called in the theme. You can check for this in the Dynamic Widgets Overview page, click the Advanced link at the bottom.
You can also try OLD method.
Make sure the page you’re looking at does contain the sidebar where the widget is in.
Thread Starter
fprati
(@fprati)
Well, the advanced setting shows wp_head ok. I tried to tick the old method, no change. Any more hints?
Plugin Contributor
Qurl
(@qurl)
Have you tried other settings? Maybe it’s just the one you’re trying not compatible.
Do you know the theme is using custom queries? This is also many times a problem. Especially when the theme does not reset back to the main query.
