Notes PostWidgets is a plugin which adds a custom post type that you can use to create text widgets with.
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Notes PostWidgets is a plugin which adds a custom post type (“Post Widgets”) that you can use to create text widgets with. This way you can use the built in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor to set the mark up on your widgets. You can set a custom CSS class name for each widget for more specific mark up.
Hi!
Thanks for the plugin (I couldn’t find wysiwyg text widget for WP 3). I tested it on my localhost and it appeared to be broken. Once I checked the form function for the widget, I saw you were using short open tags “<?=" and "<?=__" (which were disabled on my server). So you might want to change this.
Cheers
Ah. Of course! Didn’t think about that!
I’ve uploaded a quick fix and a patch (0.2.2). Feel free to download and test it and get back to us! 
You can also try the beta3 of the 1.0.0 version which includes this fix:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/notes-postwidgets/download/
Love this plugin.
Having 1 problem…trying to insert image from image gallery just hangs after hitting ‘insert into post’.
I made sure the post was saved 1st, tried uploading the image ahead of time into the image gallery, tried a few times…still hangs.
It hangs at this URL:
http://sitesubscribe.com/rocktheworldmedia/wp-admin/media-upload.php?type=image&tab=library&post_id=113
Next I’ll try just hard coding in the img tag, that should work but not ideal.
Thanks for your attention. Great work!
WP 3.01 with multisite, Firefox 3.66, Mac 10.6.4
Great plugin. Was wondering if there is a way to either make the post a page or use a different post template?
I have other plugins which include social media/share buttons at the bottom of posts, and these are displaying wrongly in your widget in the sidebar. Can they be stripped out/prevented from showing/a different post template used/posts made as pages instead?
Thanks
Great plugin, ideal for my project, but i just have one problem: the widget drop down list only shows the 10 latest posts. And I need it for a minimum of 15 different posts. Is it just me or some of my other plugins or does anyone else have this problem too? (0.2.2 and wordpress 3.0)
SiteSubscribe: That sounds like a WP-bug of some sort. Shouldn’t be because of the plugin I don’t think.
Harry: At the moment this plugin only works with the custom post type. Not sure why the social media/share buttons shows though. Which plugin is it and I could have a look at it?
Anna: Try the beta 3 of version 1.0.0. That version has a search function. But it sounds like a bug that only 10 latests posts shows. So I will fix that and I think it’s time for a 1.0.0 version after that.
1.0.0 is live now.
Nice! Thanks a lot, 10.0 works like a charm.
Does anyone have a suggestion for excluding the NotesPostWidgets posts from search results?
I found this script: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-exclude-posts-or-pages-from-search-results
But I’m not looking forward to note down 17 different id’s, and add one every time a new widgetpost is added. Since these posts all show /NotesPostWidgets / in the URL, I know it should be possible to have an easy sollution but my lack of php knowledge gets in the way.
Anna: Ah, didn’t realize they show in the search result. I will have a look at it and get back to you (here). Probably isn’t to hard to add.
Anna: I’ve fixed it and uploaded it as a version 1.0.1. It’s not the stable version. Cause I think I want to make it an option to exclude or not. But that would take me more time. For now you can get the 1.0.1 version here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/notes-postwidgets/download/
Let me know how it works out.
Wow, another update
didn’t mean to get you working on it right away! Ifigured I could filter out the widgetposts from the search results myself, but just didn’t know how, but this works fantastic too! Widget shows where it’s supposed to show and no longer any hits when searching.
Thanks a lot for your quick replies! This is an exellent plugin if you want people to control widgets without having to teach them html or enable them to accidentally delete a widget.
No problem. Small changes.
Happy that it works for you!
Hi,
Thanks for a great plugin. I’ve added this plugin to a customer project, and found, what I think, is a bug.
When activating this plugin, the Add Image overlay positions incorrectly in the Edit Page/Post screen in IE8 (maybe also in IE7, IE6).
I’ve looked at your code and found the following:
// If admin page, load jquery
if (is_admin()) {
wp_enqueue_script(‘prototype’);
}
When commenting the wp_enqueue_script line, all works well again. Just thought I’d let you know.
Well that sounds strange. That line just makes sure that the prototype javascript lib is available. Which I use in the “add widget box”. Will try to have a look at it though. When I have the time.
Thanks!
Is this bug still there in WP 3.1?
Hi, This is a great plugin and I’m using it quite heavily, thanks. No problems up till now but it’s started behaving badly.
First my listing of postwidgets in the dashboard has lost its edit options, only displays “view” and no tick box. I’ve created a new test postwidget today and that is behaving correctly showing all commands and a tick box.
Second if I click on the “view” option for any of these, including the new one, I get a 404. Meanwhile, at the user end, all the postwidgets are still working fine.
I’ve de-activated the only recent plugin but that makes no difference. I have upgraded to WordPress 3.1 Any ideas?
Thanks
Chris
Hello
I installed the plugin myself on a 3.1 install and the Edit option is there. Just like you say. I’m gonna try to update on of my old WP installes after activating the plugin to see if that removes the Edit option. But at the moment it sounds like a WP bug not specific to the plugin. But I’ll try to have a closer look.
Found something. It’s sort of a WP bug as expected:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-gui-posts-missing-editquick-editetc-links?replies=3
Trying to fix an 1.0.1 update asap.
If you want to you can try a beta of 1.0.1 before I can add it to the trunk.
BACKUP YOUR DATABASE FIRST.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4338/notes-postwidgets_1.0.1-beta.zip
Hi. I did the latest upgrade through the WP Dashboard, but I receive the following error:
“You have upgraded to Notes PostWidgets version 1.0.2 which require a database upgrade. Please backup your data and click here to perform the upgrade. An error occurred during last upgrade process.”
I tried several times with same result. Also tried downloading the plugin fresh and uploading via ftp (I didn’t delete the remote version for concern I might delete some necessary existing files since I’m using this on a few sites with data).
Any ideas?
If you click to show the PostWidgets in the menu. Can you edit all of them? Did you have trouble editing any of them before performing the update? Except the error msg, do you have any trouble with the the plugin now or before? Which version of WP?
I might have an idea…
I’m on WP 3.1.1 Multisite.
The error is showing up in Dashboard for sites which had this plugin already activated, including those sites with some content within the widget, and also a site that it was activated but had no content yet added.
Deactivating and reactivating did not help.
When I activated it on an existing site that had not yet had this plugin activated, it does not show the message…so maybe it is something left over in the options table?
I seem to be able to edit old post widgets content, I click into them and save edits, and have had no problem in the past. I can also create new post widgets. Existing sites seem to be rendering properly using the widgets. As far as I can tell everything is still working, just getting the error msg.
Hope this helps. I’ll get more info to you as I try additional things.
I’m using this plugin more and more all the time and find it very useful.
Thanks!
~Jeff
I made it so that if the database upgrade returns an error it sets an optiom to display the msg + plus the error msg so that you should be able to try again. Most likley everything is fine but the error msg displays faulty. I have an idea where it might be this way if there where no PostWidgets to upgrade. The plugin tries to upgrade, finds nothing, think its an error an displays the msg. When everything actually is fine.
I have an idea in any case which will do a check and remove the message if its ok. A check for the fix.
but. Yeah. I think it will have to wait untill tuesday. 
Do you know how to hack in the database? I could tell u how to hide the msg.
I did notice something odd, but it likely isn’t related to the upgrading of the plugin.
I’ve been pasting some code into a normal text widget. I thought I’d replace the text widget with a Notes Post Widget so I get the benefit of saving the widget revisions, etc.
The content did not render proplerly, and in fact was all messed up to the point where I had to revert back to using the text widget.
The code being pasted in is just basic html (using html view in the editor when pasting into Notes Post Widget).
Here are screenshots of normal content (using text widget) and malformed content (using same code pasted into Notes Post Widget):
http://milehighcentral.com/images/_images-cust/_temp/normal.jpg
http://milehighcentral.com/images/_images-cust/_temp/malformed.jpg
Is this something to do with the post filters being applied?
Hmm. I dont know about that one. Hard to tell why. Doesnt sound like a plugin error. :-/
This widget is just what I needed, works perfectly for my project. Brilliant!
Perfect widget that I was looking for, thank you !!!
But the note templates displays the social buttons like Shareaholic or Facebook Like/Google +1 buttons at the bottom of the note… How could I make that the note only shows the text written in the wysiwyg editor, please ?
Many thank for your work and help
Which plugin are you using for the social buttons? Do you have an URL or a picture of an example on how it looks. I guess it’s a plugin or a theme that adds it. Not sure I can do very much about it. But could have a look and test if you let me know on the questions above.