Issue 284 - kaytwo - K2 should disable WordPress' Widgets

Issue 284:	K2 should disable WordPress' Widgets
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Status:	Fixed
Owner:	heilemann
Closed:	Sep 2007
Type-Defect
Priority-Critical
Milestone-Release1.0

Reported by darrell.schulte, May 01, 2007

Please read this first:
http://code.google.com/p/kaytwo/wiki/HowtoFileanIssue

If this is a bug, what steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install bleeding edge WordPress.
2. Use K2 theme.
3.

What did you expect to happen? What does happen?:
Expected to see Sidebar Modules present on blog page and the presence of
the admin area, Presentation > K2 Sidebar Modules. Neither of which show up
under these circumstances.

SVN revision or version used (not 'latest')?: K2 (334)


Version of WordPress used?: 2.3-alpha (rev 5363)


If this is available online, what is the URI?:


Please provide any additional information below:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4201

It might be useful for K2 to somehow integrate a:

remove_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'wp_maybe_load_widgets', 0 );

to cancel out the activation of the WordPress Widgets.

Using the "fix" on Trac or the remove_action here, seems to solve the
problem and displays things as they should...

Comment 1 by darrell.schulte, May 01, 2007

I'm not skilled enough to figure out how to make it work within the theme...so I made
this simple Disable WordPress Widgets plugin.

	disable-wordpress-widgets.php
	316 bytes Download

Comment 2 by heilemann, Sep 02, 2007

I want to see this plugin included in K2 as an option.

Status: Accepted
Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-Critical Milestone-Release1.0

Comment 3 by darrell.schulte, Sep 02, 2007

Soon after I attached this plugin, I added it to the WordPress plugin area:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-widgets/

Integrate as you see fit.

Comment 4 by heilemann, Sep 14, 2007

Looking for a way to activate that plugin snippet automatically when K2 is activated.

Owner: heilemann

Comment 5 by heilemann, Sep 19, 2007

(No comment was entered for this change.)

Summary: K2 should disable WordPress' Widgets

Comment 6 by darrell.schulte, Sep 19, 2007

Feel free to shoot down this premise...

Arrr! Slap something like the following within app/display/options.php. When someone
configures K2, a background process starts up (if necessary).

  // check to see if Disable WordPress Widgets exists
  if (!file_exists(ABSPATH . PLUGINDIR . '/' .
disable-wordpress-widgets/disable-wordpress-widgets.php)) { install_the_plugin(); 
	}

  function install_the_plugin() {
    	global $wpdb;
    echo 'Installing Disable WordPress Widgets plugin now.';
    exec("cp -r
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress23/wp-content/themes/kaytwo/disable-wordpress-widgets
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress23/wp-content/plugins/");
      $wpdb->query("UPDATE $wpdb->options SET option_value =
'a:1:{i:0;s:55:\"disable-wordpress-widgets/disable-wordpress-widgets.php\";}' WHERE
option_name = 'active_plugins'");
  }

The path determination needs to be cleaned and the tricky part is the update itself.
The above update assumes that there are no currently active plugins. 

The option_value would need to be sliced and diced if there were multiple plugins active.

For instance, here's three plugins:

a:3:{i:0;s:19:"akismet/akismet.php";i:1;s:29:"disable-wordpress-widgets.php";i:2;s:9:"hello.php";}

Here's just dww plugin:

a:1:{i:0;s:55:"disable-wordpress-widgets/disable-wordpress-widgets.php";}

If the plugin wasn't there already, one would have to grab the existing
active_plugins' option_value string and the single dww option_value so that it
increments the first a:[number of plugins] and each i:[position value for each
plugin] would need to have the correct value (and appropriately placed in the correct
order).

Easy. Aye.

Comment 7 by darrell.schulte, Sep 19, 2007

Correction...

  if (!file_exists(ABSPATH . PLUGINDIR .
'/disable-wordpress-widgets/disable-wordpress-widgets.php')) { install_my_plugin(); 
	}

Comment 8 by darrell.schulte, Sep 19, 2007

I got it t' work. It's probably lackin' some logic checkin', but it works. Woo! Just
need t' make aye folks immediately 'Configure K2' followin' their selection o' t' K2
theme.

	options.diff
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Comment 9 by darrell.schulte, Sep 20, 2007

Or, you can go with Ben's method in r476...

Comment 10 by ben.sherratt, Sep 20, 2007

Should be done in r480. It's a little... involved.

Status: Fixed

Comment 11 by darrell.schulte, Sep 20, 2007

Looks great Ben. Nice job. I don't think it's worthy of a starting a new issue, but
could you change any instance of 'Wordpress' to 'WordPress' throughout the K2?
There's a few of them...

Thanks again. I'm sure the K2 community will be pleased -- obsoleting K2's usage of
Disable WordPress Widgets is a good thing.

Comment 12 by ni...@killersites.com, Sep 20, 2007

"Should be done in r480"

When will this be made available?

Thanks,

Stefan

Comment 13 by darrell.schulte, Sep 20, 2007

It's available. 

http://code.google.com/p/kaytwo/source