Advanced Custom Fields – Widget Relationship Field add-on Plugin

IMPORTANT! NOW ONLY COMPATIBLE WITH ACF 4.2 AND ABOVE! BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY HAS BEEN REMOVED.

This plugin is an add-on for Advanced Custom Fields. It allows you to use an ACF “relationship” field to choose widgets at a page level.

Inherit widgets from parent post or menu items. Drag and drop to change widget display order.

Documentation

https://bitbucket.org/djbokka/widget-relationship-field-add-on-for-advanced-custom-fields

Bug Submission and Support

https://bitbucket.org/djbokka/widget-relationship-field-add-on-for-advanced-custom-fields

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1. Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

3. In sidebar.php, replace dynamic_sidebar() function with the new dynamic_widgets() method.
   if ( ! acf_Widget::dynamic_widgets( ‘Side Bar’ ) ) {

   //fallback to default function if you like
   dynamic_sidebar( ‘Side Bar’ );

   }

1. 

   Configuration on ACF settings

2. 

   Usage at the page level

https://bitbucket.org/djbokka/widget-relationship-field-add-on-for-advanced-custom-fields

1.3.4

• Left a debugging line in. I’m an idiot. Sorry.

1.3.3

• Fixed multiple field bug to allow multiple and default format.

1.3.2

• Fixed multiple field bug.

1.3.1

• Incorporated change by Jon Tascher to support Options Pages.

1.3

• Bug fix when running multiple relationship fields.

1.2

• Updated js and field code for ACF 4.2. NO LONGER BACKWARD COMPATIBLE.

1.1

• Added ACF 4 structure with backward compatibility to ACF 3.

1.0.2

• Fixed paging bug (thanks for Dylan Kuhn for pointing it out and providing the solution).

1.0.1

• Changed javascript functions to account for ACF version 3.5.8 upgrade. Still backward compatible.

1.0

• Initial Commit.