And another thing… where’s your site so I can have a look at it in situ?

I just found your plugin. Hoped it would work on my page, but it doesn’t. The page I want to use it for is not a regular WordPress page, but it’s a page with three blocks with the loop, each showing the lastest post of a certain category. The ACFW are working perfecty on a normale page, but not on this page. The sidebar is okay. there is one normal textwidget and that is showing, but the CF widgets aren’t. Is there a way to show the widgets on a page with multiple loops?

I’ve just released version 0.82 of the widget, which should fix the problem you’re having. It appears to have been caused by a minor change in functionality (or a bug fix) in one of the WordPress functions I was using to retrieve the custom field data. When I upgraded the development copy of my blog to WP 2.9, I got the problem you’re experiencing… widget version 0.82 has fixed it, so give it a try and let me know how you get on.

Athena

At the moment, no because the widgets will all pick up the first instance of the ‘amazon-linkto’ field so they’d all point to the same page.

However, thats not to say that it can’t do it. I’ve sent you a mail to discuss further.

First i want to thank you for this great plugin which is so wonderfully close to what I need for my site.
I was wondering if there was a quick and dirty way to have 3 different calls per page such as:
custom field ‘amazon-linkto’ with value to 204
custom field ‘amazon-linkto’ with value to 206
custom field ‘amazon-linkto’ with value to 208
And have the 3 displayed in the same sidebar at the same time?

thanks for any further help you may provide.

Cheers
Yanik

Despite the best of intentions, I’m not smart enough to get this stuff. If you look at http://www.mpoweredparent.com, you’ll see a newsfeed at right sidebar. “Drunk Driving in the News”. It displays nice and pretty because it’s in a widget. Now check out http://www.mpoweredparent.com/rpa . That is a test page that I have been thumping away at for over a week now. It displays an individual rss feed that was custom selected for that page. The problem is that in order to select a custom feed for that page, I have to embed the feed into the post, rather than simply drop it into a widget. As a result, formatting goes out the window, and the feed displays across the entire page.

My goal is for the AthenaOfDelphi Organization to be able to have their own page/post, with a localized news feed, and secondly, their own icalendar feed display in a nice neat “widget-like” area of the page. Ultimately, I’ll have dozens of these pages, and would like them to look uniform, but for the customized content. Using widgets, I would be stuck with the same feed and icalendar content on each page. Thanks again for your time and wisdom. -T

The Advanced Custom Field Widget is for displaying the content of custom fields in a sidebar widget. If you take a look at my site, the Amazon side bar is the ACFW loading content from pages where I’ve reviewed something. It doesn’t pump data into the custom fields, it just makes displaying whats there fairly simple. If you can provide a bit more information and possibly an example page or something, then I may be able to give you a better answer.

Your plug-in may be a miracle for me, but my little brain has trouble figuring it out. My site is intent on offering different organizations a place to post their localized news and calendar info on an individualized page. The news comes by way of RSS feed and the calendar by way of icalendar.

Problem: I can’t use the widgets obviously, because I get the same content on each page. When I embed my individualized content in the page/post directly, without the formating aid of a widgetized area, it doesn’t show up nice and neat as in a widget, but rather haphazardly across the page. I have been trying to figure out how to create custom fields for this purpose, but the learning curve is too high for me. Can this plug-in make the process easier?