Comment on WordPress Widgets Tutorial by SEO Dave.

WordPress SEO Widget On Blog Post and Static Page edit screens add whatever code you want shown only for that blog post/static page to the Stallion Single Post widget meta box. You could for example add a banner ad as fully formed HTML code.

On the Appearance >> Widgets page drag and drop the Stallion Single Post widget to a widget area.

This widget will only load on posts and pages you’ve added content on the edit screen.

From the sounds of things you missed stage one, so none of your posts/pages have content for that widget, so it didn’t load anything.

The Stallion Single Post widget is a quick way to add a single custom widget to a post/page, there are other ways to achieve similar results. Every widget can be shown/hidden on various parts of a site. When you view the home page of this site you’ll see some text widgets with information describing how I built the widget, those text widgets only load on the home page.

To have this Stallion feature under Stallion Layout Options set Widget Display ON

Under all multi-widgets (not available under the older single widgets) you’ll have more options to hide/show the widget. Only problem with this feature is if you had a 50 page site and wanted for example a different Stallion Custom Ad on all 50 pages you would have to add 50 versions of the Stallion Custom Ad widget which would be a nightmare to maintain. That’s why we have the Stallion Single Post Widget, a single widget controls all the posts/pages and we add the content on the page/post edit screen.

The Widget Display feature is more for showing/hiding content on a single or small number of category or disabling a widget on a set of posts rather than trying to manage widgets on a post by post basis.

Stallion is much more versatile than your average WordPress theme widget wise.

David