Note: I just wanted to elaborate on this a bit. I use the KC Widget Enhancements plugin to add custom classes to particular widgets. I have used it on several sites and it has worked well. Essentially all this plugin does, is it allows you to add a CSS class to a widget.
What Widget Logic does, is while it uses the standard widget classes, when it is active. It overwrites my custom CSS class when active. As such, even though it uses the standard widget classes, it overwrites any classes I may have added.
ISTR coming across some clash with KC Widget Enhancements before – so it’s not that Widget Logic overwrites those CSS classes, it’s that WL clashes somehow with how KCWE adds them in the first place.
I don’t know KCWE well enough to answer, sorry.
Also, I don’t really understand the purpose of a plugin to add CSS classes to widgets, as by default WP will add classes and IDs enough to style as you please anyway. eg on the blog i admin, all widgets have the class “widget” and all text widgets also have the class “widget_text” too. In addition the ID of each text widget, eg “text-123456”, singles out a specific text widget, and so on for all widgets (not just text).
I’ve come across reference to this eg here
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/widget-logic-and-kc-widget-enhancements-conflict
where the KCWE developer says he will add code to detect how WL works. However I’ve resolved to get off my lazy coder behind at last and update the WL code if there is a more general problem that I’m causing with WL.
Hi,
Ok great! I suppose a clash between KC and WL is not a very common occurrence but it would be great to have any issues fixed between them.
As for the use case of KC, I find it useful to be able to assign a utility class to various widgets sometimes so that I can attribute a set of styles to them. Sometimes the standard classes .widget, .widget-text, or the widget ID does not apply since I do not want the style attributed to all widgets, or necessarily all text widgets or even just one specific widget. Having the ability to assign a class to a selection of widgets is helpful since I then do not need to manually list each widget ID I want the styles attached to.
Thank you for the feedback! Look forward to the update!
I’m not trying to be argumentative (or at least not provocatively so!), but
“I then do not need to manually list each widget ID I want the styles attached to”
but you do have to install and activate a plugin and then use it to manually add special classes to each widget. A manual list of IDs in the CSS seems simpler – lower overheads, less server processing etc.
This is true. It is a little long winded to add all of that for a CSS class.
