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churchthemes / church-theme-framework

A library of code useful for developing church WordPress themes that use the Church Content plugin.
https://churchthemes.com/guides/developer/framework/
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Unable to get widgets to display on the front end #7

Closed EvanAgee closed 9 years ago

EvanAgee commented 9 years ago

Greetings, I've just started using church-theme-framework for a theme I'm working on and I'm having a strange issue.

I've enabled all widgets in my theme using: image

And they show up just fine on the backend and I'm able to assign them to sidebars. However, when I load the page on the front end all of the core widgets load fine but none of the CT Wigets are loading.

Could you help me out? Thanks so much for this AMAZING AMAZING framework and plugin!

stevengliebe commented 9 years ago

Hi Evan,

You'll need to create a template for each widget in your theme in a widget-templates directory (e.g. widget-templates/widget-events.php). The template is necessary for showing the widget's contents on the site in the way you decide. See the ctfw_widgets function and the widget method in includes/classes/widget.php for how it works.

The documentation for the framework is very thin (in particular with regard to using widgets) so I recommend looking at a how an existing theme is using the framework's features: http://churchthemes.com/themes/

stevengliebe commented 9 years ago

BTW, I'd love to see what you make. What I see at http://churchinteractive.co is fantastic.

EvanAgee commented 9 years ago

Ahh, that makes sense!! Thanks so much!

I'll definitely share when I'm done. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to create this framework and the content plugin. I've been dreaming of building a WordPress-based platform specifically to meet the needs of the church for some time now and I was so excited to see how much you've already done!

I'll probably end up purchasing Exodus, great theme!

stevengliebe commented 9 years ago

You're welcome. Good luck with your project!