afai get, this is what exactly i am looking for, i will need to copy exactly the same widgets in two sidebars with the same order to 15+ blogs, this will be lifesaver for me, hope it still works, great job Edb ;)

Working on my 242 blog and going to get upgraded "one of these days" so that I can migrate one (or more) widgets to all blogs without deleting the existing widgets, or, the ability to tag widgets as "don't delete me" so that I won't lose one or more when I copy from X to Y blogs.

The thing is sometimes you have a widget on a blog that (a) does not need to be everywhere and (b) does not need to be deleted when all others move.

Oh and now I know I also need to create a way to copy one container from one blog to the same container in another blog. Fun!

isnt this great,when configuring even 1 blog's widget was bugging me, and this has copied it to all other 11 blogs even with settings! :lalala: Thanks Ed !

I just tried this plugin and for shure i click where it was not recommended : on "rebuild widget table" and it erase all widgets of all my blogs 8|

I try to copy to all my blog the widget structure of my mother blog but i get an error message : Table 'myblogs.evo_widget' doesn't exist(Errno=1146)

Does someone know how i can repair my error???? :roll:

I'm running on 2.4.2

Thanks by advance!

The problem was i changed the default name of tables "evo" by "blogs" but i find were to change it in your file and it's now working!

EdB should use the prefix T_ to replace the prefix by the one used in the blog. This is a typical query (just an example, has nothing to do with the hack)

'CREATE TABLE T_settings (
				set_name VARCHAR( 30 ) NOT NULL ,
				set_value VARCHAR( 255 ) NULL ,
				PRIMARY KEY ( set_name )
			)'

But do check if that works properly in the hack.

Good luck

Thanks, i already change "evo_widget" by the name of my table "blogs_widget" in "_widgetmanager.plugin" (it appeared only 2 times)

I tried since and it works! very usefull plugin!

Thank you for your answer

Good feedback - thanks!

Little details that I normally think about, but obviously missed. A rev will happen that will fix this issue very VERY soon (watch your BOPIT yah?), though any and all other improvements for this tool are still on the sketch pad. By the way the sketch pad is where stuff lives before it makes it to the drawing board, which is where it lives before it makes to the heres-an-idea page, which is where it lives before it makes it to my file editor, which is where it gets beaten bloody until it can actually do something, which all has to happen before it gets uploaded to an actual server for actual testing.

So yeah a bug fix before an improvement happens is a great idea, and for sure thanks for the report and the solution.

I have a huge sketchpad by that definition .... it's called my live blog :p

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this is an awesome widget. I have 300 blogs and was dreading the road ahead.

thanks guys

This is soooo AWEEEESOME!!!

It works great on 2.4.5 !!!! :p

Hello.

When is it necessary to 'Rebuild Widgets Table'?

Thanks in advance.

blogmeister wrote:

Hello.

When is it necessary to 'Rebuild Widgets Table'?

Thanks in advance.

It's not ;)

If you want a nice tidy database where everything is in numerical order then rebuilding the widgets table will make the widgets table be nice and tidy. Otherwise it doesn't matter.

Oh and this was updated recently to allow for saying "All" instead of having to enter in all your blog numbers. People with the bopit plugin already knew that :)

WOW EdB -

Do you realize how much work this has saved me for the future?

I just tried this in v.2.4.5 after creating a new blog. It copied even my Free HTML widget contents! COOL!

Thanks!

I used it twice. Liked a lot.

Glad you guys like it! To me it seems like the kind of plugin you use then disable till you create another blog, right? One day when I finish all the "really important things" I gotta do yesterday I'll release the companion plugins "user manager" and "groups manager". They got similar features (and longer hair).

Oh and there is a newer version out that lets you say "All" instead of typing blog numbers. Not sure if I said that here in the forums or not...

Just wanted to say, this widget STILL rocks. Saves me loads of time and shit whenever I create a new tacky pad and rename all the containers :roll:

Ohhh yeah, it works in Whissip, so the chances are it'll work in 3.stable.spam ;)

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*edit
Minor gripe "All" barfs when you use lcase, not hard to change ;)

Seems to work OK in the 3.stable.spam I have just been playing with and it certainly does rock !

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(going through my watched topics looking for the cure for videos not doing anything in rss feeds hoping I marked it as watch...)

I suppose I should test my plugins in 3.bug but mostly I wanted to say here there is a bug in one of the colored box bits that is supposed to move one widget or one container to other blogs. I forget exactly, but it gets stuff jacked up in a hurry under the precisely wrong combination of conditions. I should do an upgrade to roll back the improvement eh?

Never tried it, just a quick question. Does it copy blog settings too ?

sam2kb wrote:

Never tried it, just a quick question. Does it copy blog settings too ?

No. I thought of something similar for blog settings, like "migrate (a group of settings) from X to [ ... list ... ] blogs". I kinda think I started down that path but then saw something shiny and got distracted.

I think fixing the bug I know of in WM then doing a BM ... er ... :roll: would be cool. Actual paid work calls, but this idea shall move up my list of things to do.

a LOT of time ago.. I tought about something like a 'inheritance' option for blog settings :)

I think that in almost all cases the people just replicate url settings and a bunch of other settings in each blog.

I guess I have to code a hack myself. I'll post it here if you guys are interested.

Walter wrote:

a LOT of time ago.. I tought about something like a 'inheritance' option for blog settings :)

I think that in almost all cases the people just replicate url settings and a bunch of other settings in each blog.

Yes I agree. The "per blog" settings is geared towards blog networks (which is good and is the strength of b2evolution), but majority of the users are non-blognets :p

Another way of implementing "inheritance" is a feature wherein we have a "Global-Blog settings" (similar to "Global Settings").

Then, if we want to customize a particular setting of a particular blog, we just do it the way we are doing now - go to each blog.

Now, if later we want to reset the settings of a particular blog we customized. There is a button somewhere that says, "reset back to Global-Blog Settings".

It goes something like: "If Blog-A settings != to Global-Blog settings then use Blog-A settings else use Global-Blog settings"

The idea, until a particular blog was edited ("Blog Settings"), it will use the "Global-Blog Settings".

This way, we only have to edit once and in one place ;)

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Re: Widget, I also want to report that when I try to copy a particular widget to another blog, it spits out errors and fails. From my end (v3) I can only use the "copy all widgets to another blog", I can't use the per widget copy.

Yes - there is a bug in both the 'colored field' options. Not in all use cases, but enough that an upgrade needs to remove those features.

Didn't there used to be a "copy this blog" button like there is for users?

Updated, same link http://wonderwinds.com/hackblog.php/2008/03/27/widget-manager-plugin

The broken bits are sorta still in there - just commented out because they were broken. Imagine that: an upgrade that undoes the last upgrade :roll:

Also this time "All" means 'all blogs that have a blog ID' which means all blogs eh? "Owner" now means blogs owned by whoever is logged in (which is probably silly because anyone who can do 'Owner' can also do 'All'). And "Public" means 'blogs in the public bloglist' which is what "All" used to mean.

Other than that, same old clunky interface. It was designed to do a job, not look pretty ;)

"Blog Manager" coming up next. I'm thinking "get a list of all settings associated with a designated master blog, put a check box next to each, copy all checked settings to whatever list of blogs is the list of the moment".

can you please post a new download link - this one is dead...
http://wonderwinds.com/hackblog.php/2008/03/27/widget-manager-plugin