Topic on Extension talk:Widgets

The latest release tagged on GitHub is 1.30 (which is the same commit the REL1_30 branch points to) from 2017. There are branches for REL1_31 through REL1_35 but none of them have tags and therefore they do not show up on the releases page.

This means if you follow the instructions for 'Installing from a .zip file' you end up downloading v1.30 which does not include an extension.json and as far as I can tell does not work with wfLoadExtension if you follow the instructions in 'Configuration':

<code>
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Exception: Unable to open file /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/extensions/Widgets/extension.json: filemtime(): stat failed for /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/extensions/Widgets/extension.json in /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php:136

Stack trace:
#0 /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(52): ExtensionRegistry->queue('/home/[user]/pu...')
#1 /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/LocalSettings.php(145): wfLoadExtension('Widgets')
#2 /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/includes/Setup.php(124): require_once('/home/[user]/pu...')
#3 /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php(81): require_once('/home/[user]/pu...')
#4 /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/index.php(41): require('/home/[user]/pu...')
#5 {main}
  thrown in /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/includes/registration/ExtensionRegistry.php on line 136
</code>

It looks like there are more issues if you try to follow the 'Install from a .zip file' instructions – the instructions say to copy the smarty libs into the smarty folder, but I can't see anything that actually takes care of including that class?

<code>
/wiki/index.php?title=Albert%27s_Lyrebird&action=submit   Error from line 24 of /home/[user]/public_html/wiki/extensions/Widgets/WidgetRenderer.php: Class 'Smarty' not found
</code>

Indeed this extension is no longer being tagged. Also installing from zip is no longer the preferred way. Anyhow I updated to link to point to the branches. There you can pick the branch matching your version of MediaWiki and hopefully all of this works. Hope this helps.