Comments on: Kiva

By: Slim

Slim — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:39:22 +0000

David, I was able to get the widget to work inside the blog sidebar and also set the settings. But, no loans are being displayed. It says ‘no loans in …”. What am I doing wrong? I love Kiva and have made loans now for a few years. Regards,
Slim

By: David

David — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:43:05 +0000

I understand about that. I placed the show_kiva call at the top of my sidebar here because I was unwilling to quit using widgets. I’ve thought about turning this into a widget, but I have not had the time. Thanks to your inspiration I just realized that a shortcode would work. Download the latest version of Kiva (version1.2) and you can place the shortcode “[ SHOW-KIVA ]” (without the spaces) in a text widget.

By: eoghan

eoghan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:53:45 +0000

OK David, thanks.
I’ve got widgets that I really don’t want to remove, so I guess I’ll go back to using the Kiva widget I had on there before. Not as customisable, but I have more control over placing.
Keep up the good work.

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:20:22 +0000

Sorry about that – without that space it won’t show up in the comments – same goes for the code below.

If you are using widgets in your sidebar then it only works if you place the code above the widget section – which starts with something like < ?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?> (or at the end after the widget section – noted by < ?php endif; ?>)

If you are not using widgets you should be able to place it wherever you like.

By: eoghan

eoghan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:42:11 +0000

Thanks David. It works now – but I had to take out the space after the opening < .

One more minor thing: I can only get it to appear at the top of the sidebar. Is there any way to make it appear lower down, like as the 2nd or 3rd item?

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:30:47 +0000

Sorry – it’s fixed now (I forgot to escape the code).

By: eoghan

eoghan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:53:16 +0000

David,
Thanks for the quick reply. But did you leave something out? I can’t see anything after “…so it would look like this.”

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:21:04 +0000

I have one idea – you are probably placing the call within an HTML section. You would need to surround it with php tags so it would look like this:

‘< ?php show_kiva(); ?>‘

Let me know if that does not fix it.

By: eoghan

eoghan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:45:08 +0000

Hi David,
I’ve tried placing the php call exactly as you suggested to sunirmalya above, but all I get is the php call rendered as text at the top of the sidebar.

Any ideas? I’m just using a normal, non-customisable Kiva widget for the moment.

By: David

David — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:36:00 +0000

Try placing "

< ?php show_kiva(); ?>

" on the line right above "< ?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>" If you are using widgets and you place the show_kiva call below that line the call will be skipped. Let me know if that does not help.