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Custom Sidebars and Wordpress 5.6

Added by Marilyn Weber about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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2021-09-27
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Ned Benton writes:

A question [about] Custom Sidebars and Wordpress 5.6. Custom sidebars allows me to have different sidebars for different sections of a website, and in NESRI (Northeast Slavery Records Index) I use them for the states, so I can land on a state-specific set of pages or posts.

In a private side, Wordpress 5.6 discontinued support for this widget in favor of a new “block based widget screen” which I cannot figure out. So on my private site I installed a widget that disables the new feature and allows the old widget to work.

My concern is that if this happens on CUNY Commons, I won’t have the ability to do the workaround I did on my private site.

Do you all have a plan about this?

Ned Benton

P.S.

Incidentally I am gradually replacing the Northeast Slavery Records Index with the Northeast Slavery Records Index which includes the northeast states. It also has a robust new reporting system. (I will let you know when I want to officially close the NY Slavery Records Index site.

To see what is happening…

Go to https://nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Select Massachusetts

On the sidebar select Suffolk County

You can select any state, county and City/Town and you get a custom report generated on the fly. We do Maine to New Jersey.

Ned


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Related to CUNY Academic Commons - Support #14842: Question about widgets and block editorReporter Feedback2021-10-06

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