Mandigo supports up to four widgets bars: one in each sidebar, one at the top and one at the bottom. The top/bottom bars are most useful to display some kind of static content (using text widgets), or recent posts/comments for example.
If you’re still not using widgets (you should!), you can find more information about them here: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/
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I am trying to use the Events-Calendar widget (http://heirem.fr/2008/08/events-calendar-65-the-last-version/#comment-340) version 6.5.1 with the latest version on Mandigo 1.37. However, there seems to be a negative interaction between the two regarding jQuery. I’ve tried everything I can think of to resolve it, but no luck. I have posted on their site as well and was hoping to get the developers involved on it as well to see if it can be resolved.
This theme is great overall!
However one BIG drawback. If use 4 widgets/plugins, page load time drops to 20 seconds per page. If I disable almost everything load time is still 7-10 seconds.
No, I don’t think it is my server since other Themes work fine.
Ripose,
The loading time depends on a number of factors, and most of the time these factors are directly related to the performance of your web host.
This site (the testrun) usually loads in ~1 second, even with WP cache disabled. We used to have poor loading times on our previous host and since we moved the performance has been great. Also, if adding more widgets further slows the site, then they may just be making too many queries or too much php processing.
“Mandigo supports up to four widgets bars: one in each sidebar, one at the top and one at the bottom”
Can you give some guidance as to how widget bars could be created – and populated – at the top and bottom? This is an intriguing idea but I don’t see anything in the wiki, or anywhere within WP/Mandigo options.
By “top” and “bottom” are you referring, by the way, to the header and footer sections? That’s unclear (to me) but I’d love to take the idea and run with it to see what results can be obtained.
Thanks for a fabulous theme, this was built to be used, built to be hacked, built to be enjoyed…..I don’t have it deployed on my live site yet, I cloned my main site off to a subdomain, purely in order to play with this theme.
Love this theme! Very well designed and implemented. I was wondering if there is a way to selectively turn off the star icons in the sidebar? I like having them for standard things like links, categories, etc. But, if I put an animated banner or picture in the sidebar I’d like to be able to turn off the star icon. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Keep up the great work!
Dave
How do I get the top and bottom widget spots to appear on a page?
I want to have a static page as my home page, but it seems that only the two sidebars appear on the page and the other widget areas disappear.
If it isn’t possible to do, is there some way to remove the post meta data from a single post that will be the home page?
Thanks.
I am experiencing the same problem. A work around (although not the most elegant) is to create the page as home.php in the theme folder and you can put your static homepage in there (you will need to write in in html/php). I am using the mandigo theme as the frontpage of a WordPress Mu network of blogs so a static homepage is really an important feature to get working.
I will have a look into the issue soon myself and see if I can get it working.
I Just love the fact that you can have left-hand navigation. A Stumble for your efforts
Thanx for the great theme. I’ll test in in my new blog. I hope it’s possible to switch the image
great find! thank you for the excellent work!
Widgets really help bloggers send the complete information thru the four widget bars. Come to think of it, it is a double sided info attached wherein viewers can easily read the info you would like to post. Guess it has great help