Widget Visibility: Show Front Page/ Posts Page for secondary pages

[kraftbj]

Currently, if a widget is set to show/hide on "Front Page" or "Posts Page", the condition will only apply on the "first" page. If visiting ?paged=2, etc, the condition is not respected.

Suggest enhancement that this option include paged.

[jeherve]

This behaviour was introduced on purpose, in 2048970. (PR #24).

Since it seems different blog owners expect different behaviours, I guess we could add a new is_paged condition?

[kraftbj]

Either an option or offer code when this comes up if/when #167 is merged.

The user that prompted the ticket has a theme that uses a default set of widgets when no widgets were defined while all their widgets have some visibility settings. Only way to remove default widgets is hacking the theme or set some to be hidden on every page individually except Front Page since there isn't a way to conditionally show on paged currently.

[SN0WKRASH]

Hi, any solution for this? I'm about to have to pay someone to hack the plugin (something I don't want to do since we want to be able to update easily). Please add is_paged condition for home (front page). We use this for ads, and the money we make depends on which pages they show up on. We are currently unable to make any money for the paged front page, even though they get lots of traffic. To make matters worse, those ad spaces are conspicuously empty and it looks amateurish. Thanks for considering this.

[jeherve]

@SN0WKRASH We haven't made any progress on this yet, but feel free to add the option on your site and submit a Pull Request so others can benefit from your change. You can follow the instructions here to submit a Pull Request:
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

[samhotchkiss]

This should probably be a filter, not a front-end option, IMO

[jeherve]

Also requested here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-visibility-home-page?replies=1&view=all

[jeherve]

Also requested on Slack FR.