Topic: Custom display of sitewide notices

Custom display of sitewide notices

chlab
Participant

@chlab

9 years, 9 months ago
When sending a sitewide notice, they automatically show up where <?php wp_footer(); ?> is called. In the temlate I’m working on, they’re supposed to show up in the sidebar though, which is done like so:
```
<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'messages' ) ) : ?>
  <?php bp_message_get_notices(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
```
This causes the notices to show up in both places however. So my question is this:
how can I disable the messages from showing in the footer? I checked the code and saw they are registered as follows:

add_action( 'wp_footer', array( $this, 'sitewide_notices' ), 9999 );

Is there a way to hook into wp_footer and get rid of these messages or even a better way?

Thanks!

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danbp
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@danbp

9 years, 9 months ago
hi @chlab,

if you read code documentation in /bp-legacy/buddypress-functions.php
```
// Only hook the 'sitewide_notices' overlay if the Sitewide
// Notices widget is not in use (to avoid duplicate content).
if ( bp_is_active( 'messages' ) && ! is_active_widget( false, false, 'bp_messages_sitewide_notices_widget', true ) ) {
add_action( 'wp_footer', array( $this, 'sitewide_notices' ), 9999 );
}
```
I guess you have to modify your custom code accordingly. 😉
@mercime
Participant

@mercime

9 years, 9 months ago

they’re supposed to show up in the sidebar though, which is done like so

@chlab Curious why you’re not using the Sitewide Notices Widget instead?

chlab
Participant

@chlab

9 years, 9 months ago

danbp: yeah I saw that comment but didn’t try the widget because I didn’t see it in the backend and I was too lazy to find out why I don’t have it 🙂

I’ll go try the widget and report back.
Thanks.

chlab
Participant

@chlab

9 years, 9 months ago

Ok so I activated the widget and it works! So thanks for that!

However: the widget box shows in the sidebar even when the notice is closed. Is this normal? Is there a way to get the widget to disappear when it has nothing to show?

chlab
Participant

@chlab

9 years, 9 months ago

I checked out the code and sadly, buddypress only seems to notice if there isn’t any notice to display while displaying them. I had to write a slightly modified version of the widget to get the desired functionality. For anyone who needs this too, feel free to use this: https://gist.github.com/chlab/ad608eafe2e1262140fb
It’s no more than a copy of the regular widget which fetches the notices in an output buffer and aborts when there isn’t any content to display.

Hugo Ashmore
Participant

@hnla

9 years, 9 months ago

We need to update the widget as we should simply bail out if notice closed and not display markup if possible, also I want to add a filter to return false so the option is available to cancel the footer rendering even if widget not in use.

chlab
Participant

@chlab

9 years, 9 months ago

That would be perfect!

thunksalot
Participant

@thunksalot

9 years, 3 months ago

Chlab, this sounds like just what I need. But, how do I install it? I tried uploading it into my contents/plugins folder (both within a subdirectory and just as a file), but it never shows up in the WP Plugins interface, so I can’t activate it.

chlab
Participant

@chlab

9 years, 3 months ago

Hey thunksalot
You have to upload widgets to your theme directory, never modify the contents of a plugin directory.
So e.g. add a “widgets” directory in your theme directory and upload it to there. Then you should see a “Smart BuddyPress Sitewide Notices” widget in the WordPress backend. Activate that and disable the default one.