Curious if anyone knows of a way or any available tools/plugins to organize how widgets are displayed in the WP admin?
Currently, available widgets are displayed alphabetically - which is fine.
But with a larger library of widgets, I'm wondering if there is a way to arbitrarily "group" widgets so that, for example, you could group those that have similar functions, or perhaps those that you determine to be high-frequency use widgets are visually grouped together.
Curious if anyone knows of a way or any available tools/plugins to organize how widgets are displayed in the WP admin?
Currently, available widgets are displayed alphabetically - which is fine.
But with a larger library of widgets, I'm wondering if there is a way to arbitrarily "group" widgets so that, for example, you could group those that have similar functions, or perhaps those that you determine to be high-frequency use widgets are visually grouped together.
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29th October 2010 (1 year ago)
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Hiya,
Gotta admit I've always thought the widget screen to be one of the most confusing and obnoxious elements of the WordPress UI. It's not easy for new users to figure and definitely gets crowded when you have several more being added. Having some way to organize them would rock.
That being said, I've not heard of anything that would allow for this. Anyone else have any ideas?
to add to that, if there was a way to EXCLUDE certain widgets sitewide, that'd be golden! been searching around for days for a plugin/solution... nothing.
some plugins i want to offer my users have awfully done widgets that i don't want my users even seeing bc they're too confusing, so better to just exclude them site wide...
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12th November 2010 (1 year ago)
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I'm a little lost here. What determines if a blog gets a widget or not? If you just want to have admin blogs to have them, I;d just add the actual widget code to the theme's function.php file. Since the admin blogs are going to have specific themes that other blogs won;t have, those other blogs will never see the widget code.
If you;re looking at something besides admin blogs, some specifics would be helpful.
sorry. ok. so in my wp 3.0.1 + buddypress 2.6 there's 1 super admin and then sub blog admins. i don't care if the super admin sees every single possible widget available. but i only want sub blog admins to see a limited number of widgets, either core wp widgets or widgets added by various plugins.
however, that plugin only allows hiding buddypress widgets, not any other widget.
hope this is more clear.
btw, for now, i've just done ghetto hacks of plugin's code i don't want showing their widgets by taking out their widget hooks in various plugin files. works for now.
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Sales & Support Lead — 29th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya,
Gotta admit I've always thought the widget screen to be one of the most confusing and obnoxious elements of the WordPress UI. It's not easy for new users to figure and definitely gets crowded when you have several more being added. Having some way to organize them would rock.
That being said, I've not heard of anything that would allow for this. Anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks.
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 29th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Gotta admit we just throw them all in there and say the heck with it.
Member — 12th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
to add to that, if there was a way to EXCLUDE certain widgets sitewide, that'd be golden! been searching around for days for a plugin/solution... nothing.
some plugins i want to offer my users have awfully done widgets that i don't want my users even seeing bc they're too confusing, so better to just exclude them site wide...
anybody know of any solution here?
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 12th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
I'm a little lost here. What determines if a blog gets a widget or not? If you just want to have admin blogs to have them, I;d just add the actual widget code to the theme's function.php file. Since the admin blogs are going to have specific themes that other blogs won;t have, those other blogs will never see the widget code.
If you;re looking at something besides admin blogs, some specifics would be helpful.
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sorry. ok. so in my wp 3.0.1 + buddypress 2.6 there's 1 super admin and then sub blog admins. i don't care if the super admin sees every single possible widget available. but i only want sub blog admins to see a limited number of widgets, either core wp widgets or widgets added by various plugins.
a perfect limited example of this is http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-hide-widgets.
however, that plugin only allows hiding buddypress widgets, not any other widget.
hope this is more clear.
btw, for now, i've just done ghetto hacks of plugin's code i don't want showing their widgets by taking out their widget hooks in various plugin files. works for now.
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