Hi, I was hoping to be able to create a static wordpress page then display that page on the sidebar.

I found a plugin called "Super Page Widget" which does this, however when I utilise it, suddenly my centre area displays "404 cannot find page" error. I have tried using the plain text widget, which works to a point, but it is a pain to create a nice page using it rather than the tools available in making standard wordpress pages.

Has anyone found a great solution for doing this, or for making "Super Page Widget" work with Atahualpa?

Thanks

You might want to take a look at The Spectacu.la Page Widget
I haven't done any testing but I saw it awhile ago and it looked interesting. It also indicates compatibility with WP 3.0.1

Thanks for your help lmilesw. I will have to check that out.

I've also just had some luck with a plugin called Shortcode Exec PHP.

I created a shortcode called "show_post" with the below code:

PHP Code:

extract(shortcode_atts(array('post' => '10'), $atts));
get_a_post($post);
/*the_title();*/
the_content();
/*[show_post post="post_number"]*/ 


The in the sidebar I inserted a Rich Text widget (text widget works as well), with the following code:

PHP Code:

[show_post post="140"] 


... And voilà it worked. Your solution seems like it might be more suited directly to the problem though so thank you!