Sidebar widgets don't show up to anonymous users?

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Check out ye old footer. See any widgets? I don't when anon, but who knows. When logged in, got two widgets down there.

psychobunny

Yup, when logged in I see shoutbox and forum stat widgets. So these are unchecked for anonymous as well? Your original issue was:

But this only only applies to sidebar widgets, not header or content widgets.

So I'm wondering what's up, because I saw the Ask widget on the sidebar. My guess is that - perhaps - anything that has been set for anonymous at some point in the past is unable to revert?

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@psychobunny

Interesting theory...but I've checked and unchecked all the widgets and only the ask widget shows up. I don't remember if I meant "footer widget doesn't show up" in the original question, or if I was just high.

I'm glad that the ask widget remains visible though, so no big deal. Although I'd like for people to click on the ask button and get a message "log in ya dummy".

psychobunny

Add this in:

if (!app.uid) {
  app.alertError('Log in ya dummy');
}

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@psychobunny

Cool! Except it pops up without clicking the button, and doesn't pop up when clicking the button. I stuck the code before </script>. Do I put it somewhere else?

psychobunny

I don't remember how the code looks like, but you'd have to stick that inside something that looks like:

someButton.on('click', function() {
    <--- put it here
});

If you're stuck just paste the whole thing and I'll write the proper way

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@psychobunny

Close, now it shows the error plus the composition window at the same time. Here's the code, is there an "else" type statement I need?

<script>
$('#new-topic-button-widget').on('click', function() {

if (!app.uid) {
  app.alertError('Log in ya dummy');
}
    
require(['composer'], function(composer) {
        composer.newTopic(2);
    });
});

</script>

psychobunny

Yup. Final code is:

<button id="new-topic-button-widget" class="btn btn-primary">Post</button>
<script>
$('#new-topic-button-widget').on('click', function() {
	if (!app.uid) {
	  app.alertError('Log in ya dummy');
	} else {
		require(['composer'], function(composer) {
	        composer.newTopic(2);
	    });
	}
});
</script>

Now you're learning JS too next stop, build your own plugins

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@psychobunny

Yay!

It's been a while with programming. In 1995 I made a Connect 4 game using Turbo Pascal, and apparently that took so much out of me I couldn't program ever again. But if anything would make me get back to learning, it's NodeBB

Scuzz

Is this still an issue? I have just noticed that non of the sidebar widgets display to anon users.

Edit- nvm i think it is a theme issue.