The widgets code has been released for public consumption as a Wordpress plugin and appears to work out of the box for Wordpress MU. However, this would still require a user to ‘activate’ the plugin before use as opposed to on wordpress.com where the plugin is enabled site-wide. This is relatively simple to achieve and involves the following steps:
- Copy the widgets directory and everything in it to /wp-inst/wp-content/mu-plugins/.
- Download widgets.txt, rename it to widgets.php, and copy it to /wp-inst/wp-content/mu-plugins/ (not in the widgets directory).
That did the trick, thank you.
This doesn’t work for me. The link doesn’t show up in the admin Presentation area of the Admin Panel. I tried it in mu-plugins and also put it in regular plugins and activated it. I do have plugins activated.
Nick: It could be because you are not using a widgets enabled theme?
I added this code to the theme:
Just like it says to on the Automattic website. Is there something else I have to do?
Sorry, that code is:
if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar();
Thanks for the lips and that last bit of code, it seemed to help. This plugin is great, good job on creating it!
Katie
By the way… there’s no panel for activate/deactive mu site wide plugins? because I only see the “per site” plugins panel.
Isn’t Kubrick widgets-enabled?
Jason,
I will be giving the widgets.txt a try, and will let you know how it goes.
I noticed below the security code? How did you add it to the comments form?
Thanks,
Tom
I follow all instructions but still not working