Posts by FamousThemes

sy4mil said
You don’t need 3.3 for this functionality.

I have tested with 3.2 and things didn’t work the way I wanted.

Anyway, thing are going great with the new version, and this is what is important

Thanks.

Well, I guess that’s already possible without the need of WP 3 .3 (but with the presence of particular conditions)... if you deactivate a theme and then reactivate it the widgets should be kept in their position.

What I was saying is that if you install a premium theme and use all its widgets and then you activate another theme, you will never be able to use the widgets you were using on the previous theme on the new one.

For my understanding this is not what you meant, unless your goal was to keep widgets when switching themes to try them… otherwise I don’t see any useful usage of this.

I’m still sure about what I say

Oh, I think we have understood 2 different things.

Yes you are right and sure about “What I was saying is that if you install a premium theme and use all its widgets and then you activate another theme, you will never be able to use the widgets you were using on the previous theme on the new one.”

And yes my goal is to keep widgets when switching themes.

Cheers.

Just downloaded the Wordpress 3.3 beta 4 and tested.

And things seems to be amazing.

I have the default theme installed with his custom widgets and areas. Then I deactivate it, activate a custom premium theme, setup his own widgets in his own areas.

And then activate again the old theme, and all his widgets are keeped. Also reactivating again the premium theme he got his own widgets keeped in his own areas.

PK: It seems that things are working also for premium themes, and custom widgets. You where not sure about this one

So my question finally have a solution I am so happy I will continue with the work I have done.

Cheers.

ParkerAndKent said

FamousThemes said

ParkerAndKent said
In any case, by switching themes, you would lose all the custom widgets packed with the theme you’re deactivating.

This can only work with standard widgets or with the ones added by external plugins.

Parker

Are you sure about that ? Did you test the beta version?

I mean they should build a system to remember also the theme name, and his widgets stored in a database.

If you are true this will not help much because any theme will have his own widgets for sure.

Thanks.

Sure I’m sure… the code for custom widgets is within the theme, so if the theme isn’t installed how would you have those widgets able to be executed?

These new features of WP3 .3 can only take in consideration the basic WP features, not premium ones.

Thanks PK for the explanation.

This ruins all my plans with the theme I just wanted to release I didn’t think that detail from the beginning with loosing a theme widgets when activating another.

I must think for a new strategy.

Cheers.

ParkerAndKent said
In any case, by switching themes, you would lose all the custom widgets packed with the theme you’re deactivating.

This can only work with standard widgets or with the ones added by external plugins.

Parker

Are you sure about that ? Did you test the beta version?

I mean they should build a system to remember also the theme name, and his widgets stored in a database.

If you are true this will not help much because any theme will have his own widgets for sure.

Thanks.

Thanks for the link revaxarts.

Finally WP will be updated with that , and I hope it will be the “Indefinitely” option available.

Hi,

I have looked around for a solution to keep widgets on a wordpress theme when switching to another theme.

Did someone found any solution to do that? Other than manually database backup, witch seems to be the only solution found by now.

Widgets are great to use in WP themes, are almost 100% necessary this days. But the fact that you will loose all the widgets setup on a theme when switching to another is disappointing

Thanks.

Hello,

Well, I know a lot of people don’t know about the “Edit image” button under the “Media” Wordpress admin tab, that is included in the wordpress instalation. The button is right under the image thumb that you will upload in Media section.

There is an actual image editor, that works like a plugin. You can also read THIS To see what you can do with an image (Scale Image, Image Crop, Crop Aspect Ratio, Crop Selection….)

Hope this will help.

Regards.

Hello,

You can use a “mobile detection code” in your normal website. Then redirect users to the mobile website url.

There is a lot of mobile detection codes on the WEB , like THIS one.

Congrats for that WPScientist

Cannot wait for that day too. But for now just 60% for us.

Regards.