Display Widgets Plugin

For anyone using the Display Widgets plugin (see also https://s2member.com/kb-article/plugins-that-work-well-with-s2member/ ):

It’s probably best to switch to this one:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-the-display-widgets-plugin-to-the-display-widgets-seo-plus-plugin/

Quote: “Yesterday the original Display Widgets plugin was removed from the WordPress plugin repository because the new developers first update (v2.6) automatically connects to a private server to download a GeoLocation Widget (50MB+ zip file of code that extracts directly into the Display Widget plugins directory!!!). With plugins hosted on WordPress.org you can not do that sort of thing!”

I’m using the similar Custom Sidebars plugin, and it seems to work great with s2Member.

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As the author of that KB article, and one of the complainants on the support thread for Display Widgets about the “update” to version 2.6, I’d still be cautious about moving to the “plus SEO” fork on a production site.

You should never just update a plugin “because it’s there.” You should ALWAYS test it on a development site first. That’s what I did with Display Widgets 2.6, so I saw the problem before attempting to activate that version on my production sites.

Now the “plus SEO” fork that @Peter_FB mentions might turn out to be OK. I have actually been testing it for a couple of weeks. I absolutely hate its interface, and hope to avoid ever having to use it. But my bigger concern is that the new developer might well start adding new features of his own that I neither want nor need. When I see “SEO,” I tend to take that as an indicator of someone who wants to fiddle needlessly with something. No thanks!

I currently have no problems with Display Widgtes 2.05 (the version before the silly “update”) so I’ll just be sticking with that. I much prefer it when I don’t have to keep updating plugins anyway.

There’s also a very simple way to stop being nagged to update. Just find the display-widgets.php file in the plugins folder, and put 10 immediately in front of the version number. Then version 2.05 becomes 102.05. Only versions with a higher number than that will nag you to update, and I haven’t seen one yet!

You’re right, Tim, it’s even better to have a ‘wait and see’ approach right now with this plugin, because the old version is working fine.

Hi Everyone,

You may probably want to check this plugin of mine on the repository : https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/ if you are looking for alternative. I hope this will be of great help :slight_smile: Thanks!

Cheers,
Jeffrey