Title: [Plugin: Widget Logic] Larger input area request Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Widget Logic] Larger input area request * [billseymour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billseymour/) * (@billseymour) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/) * Wonderful plugin, much appreciated. Feature request: – please make the input textarea much larger. It is particularly difficult to work with when constructing a complex conditional statement, since I can’t see most of the entry. * – alternatively, make the textarea user-adjustable, where we could modify the size using Css. * Great stuff! Thanks again. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458507) * Good timing – i’ve been asked this before but as I’m just in the middle of updating the development version I’ll give it a go. * Thread Starter [billseymour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billseymour/) * (@billseymour) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458523) * Terrific, looking forward to seeing your results. Bigger area to start with, and hopefully the ability to further adjust with Css, would be great. * Thread Starter [billseymour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billseymour/) * (@billseymour) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458543) * Just brainstorming here, but I had another idea: * Might there be a way to Save snippets of a user’s conditional code (the code that was added in the Widget Logic input box)? I’m thinking that a user might well want to refer to these snippets, particularly if setting up widgets again on another site. * Perhaps some sort of Save-as-text-file? (I already do this ‘on the fly’, saving some Widget Logic code of mine for later re-use. Thanks. * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458589) * i’ve put in something like that experimentally, and now I’m wondering how to do a ‘full load’ of the same file so you can load up and save out all your site’s WL options in one go. * Thread Starter [billseymour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billseymour/) * (@billseymour) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458590) * Now _that’s_ what I call a responsive plugin designer! * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458609) * ha – you’ve caught me at an uncharacteristic moment. i’ve been *amazingly* lazy and complacent about my plugins. for literally years in WL case. * Thread Starter [billseymour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billseymour/) * (@billseymour) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458610) * *laughs* Well, it is good to see you active on WL. WL really increases the usefulness of widgets for me – without WL, I would probably not use sidebar widgets, so that I could instead control the logic of my own sidebar code myself. WL “completes” the role of widgets, in my opinion. * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458710) * i’ve just committed v0.50 as ‘stable’ – it’s a big change in the core functionality so I’ve not changed a lot else so I can concentrate on any problems this causes. * however if you want textarea now I’ll ‘soon’ be updating the ‘development’ version you can get at: * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/download/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/download/) * or you can try changing line 99: `echo "

";` * to `echo "

";` * Thread Starter [billseymour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billseymour/) * (@billseymour) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458717) * I just tried that textarea replacement code. It produces a textarea the width of the widget and several lines deep. Much more readable and far easier to work with Widget Logic this way. I’d say definitely add that change to the next iteration of the plugin. * Great, thanks again. * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458720) * The ‘development’ 0.52 version has the textarea change AND a full import/export functionality trial (under the usual widget logic options on the main widget admin page) * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/download/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/download/) * [Kjetil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjetilgf/) * (@kjetilgf) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458722) * My compliments! Good idea – and it seems to work fine, though I haven’t found any export possibility (v 0.52b / developer version as of today) Keep up your good work! Still one of my favorite plugins * **Just another idea** – for all of us not too confident with php: What about making a larger collection of “ready to copy and paste” expressions? There are so many ways to use this, but writing expressions that works is far from easy. You might use the “Other notes” section or maybe better: link to a blog post where users could add their suggestions as comments. (If you’re on the lazy side, I mean :o) Here’s one favorite – think you helped me: `is_category(4) || (is_single()&& in_category(4) && !in_category(22))` …to make the widget appear on a category’s page AND that category’s posts but NOT on pages that also belong to an other category (22 here) (correctly described?) Cheers Kjetil wp 321 * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458723) * at the bottom of the widgets admin page should be an ‘Export All’ button followed by a load file button and ‘import All’ button. * [Kjetil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjetilgf/) * (@kjetilgf) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458724) * You’re quite right, Alan. Overlooked that one. Great Thanks * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458725) * 🙂 no worries. What I have to do now is cater for multi-line logic. Now that it’s a textarea you can have returns in the code so the export format needs tweaking… * [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * (@alanft) * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458734) * I just updated the dev again, with a fix for import/export of settings function which includes the ability to cope with multi-line logic Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: Widget Logic] Larger input area request’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/widget-logic_c8dde5.svg) * [Widget Logic](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-logic/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-logic/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-logic/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-logic/reviews/) ## Tags * [textarea](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/textarea/) * 15 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/) * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-widget-logic-larger-input-area/#post-2458734) * Status: not resolved