Comments on: Widgets Reset: WordPress Plugin

By: Genduk

Genduk — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:16:51 +0000

Thanks for this plugin, it’s great.

By: James

James — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:44:29 +0000

Thanks for the great plugin! I think it’s really cool you explain that the plugin isn’t needed and provide the code to do it manually. Good deal!

By: Moridin

Moridin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:26:09 +0000

My Tag Cloud widget along with a few others has disappeared some time ago and I can’t seem to get them back (hardcoded the tag cloud at the moment).

Widget Reset is not helping at all – doesn’t seem to be doing anything.

I’m at the latest 2.8.

Any ideas? Help please!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:21:20 +0000

I get an error on my sidebar when I run the Widget reset:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/content/o/a/r/oaramblinknigh/html/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 852

Instead of clearing out the widgets, the error appears and the widgets remain.

Any ideas?

By: Chris Masse

Chris Masse — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:20:45 +0000

Hi folks,

Thanks for this plugin.

Should I use it with WP 2.8.6 (and with WP 2.9)?

Thanks,

chris

By: John Fowler

John Fowler — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:57:29 +0000

Ignore last post…for starters I meant Widgets Reloaded, not Reset. And I solved the problem myself anyway.

Thanks again for the great plugin!

By: John Fowler

John Fowler — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:32:18 +0000

Hi Justin
Just installed your Reset plugin and it looks and works beautifully. It was just what I needed to implement contextual sidebars. Thanks for your work.

Odd problem though: I uploaded via ftp instead of WP Admin, and the plugin activated itself without showing up at all in the Plugins Panel. I deleted it from my server via ftp, expecting it to disappear so that I could upload via WP and hopefully have it appear properly in the Plugins Panel.

But…it is still installed after being deleted from my server. I love the plugin, but have no control over it status now.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

By: lalacan

lalacan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:16:36 +0000

Great plugin, will use this for my new blog.
Thank you

By: Kevin Newman

Kevin Newman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:09:09 +0000

Follow flora’s clue, I checked the value of the widget options in a fresh Wordpress install, and found they were all the same:

a:2:{i:2;a:0:{}s:12:”_multiwidget”;i:1;}

I updated all mine to match, and the missing Widgets came back.

+1 to add a SQL update to Widget Reset plugin.

By: flora

flora — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:40:57 +0000

Having no luck with the plugin getting my tag_cloud widget back, I found a forum topic at wordpress.org helpful in resolving this. Here’s what I did. Perhaps you can make the widget accomplish this so that others do not have this problem.
I went into the database and restored the widget_tag_cloud row from a database backup.Changed option_value
from a:2:{s:5:”title”;s:6:”Topics”;s:12:”_multiwidget”;i:1;}
to a:3:{i:2;a:0:{}i:3;a:1:{s:5:”title”;s:6:”Topics”;}s:12:”_multiwidget”;i:1;}
The tag cloud widget reappeared in the widgets screen and I was able to add it back to the sidebar. Resolved for now.