Getting BUMPZee Sidebar Widget to Work
Rather than editing the sidebar code via Wordpress I like to use the Widgets function that is built into my skin; it’s quick, easy to move things about and quite effective. I also like to use the BUMPZee recent visitors / entries Widget rather than MyBlogLog as it’s a lot more relevant to my site.
Ultimately the two of these did not want to work together. Whilst Scott is working on a solution for it I did find a workaround to get the BUMPZee widget to work via the standard sidebar Widgets system for Wordpress.
You need to get the PHP Widget Plugin and activate it. Once this is done if you go to the Sidebar Widgets section under Presentation in your Wordpress backend you will see a new option called €œPHP Code Widgets€. Select 1 and click Save and under Avaliable Widgets you will now see €œPHP Code 1€; drag this to where you want the BUMPZee widget to appear in the sidebar.
Now click on the options link for the PHP Code 1 (the little graphic on the right) and input the code that is given in the BUMPZee section under options.
Click Save, go to your website, and you should now have the full functionality of the new plugin by Scott.
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Couple of quick points.
James, your point number 2 is only true if you put the widget on the left side, or more specifically, anywhere in the code that gets run before the post is displayed (aka “the loop”).
When it’s on the right, it gets run after the post is displayed and gets the variables set properly to pass the comment info.
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Thanks for this info, it’s working great on my blogs now.
Now to figure out how to get the little ‘bump it’ thingie to show up on each one of my posts…
James. Great stuff. I use WordPress Widgets and your solution worked perfectly. I wasn’t sure what to do there for a while, thought I was going to have to rewrite Scott’s plugin to make it a widget!