chrisguitarguy

<p>Arbitrary Sidebars allows you to add widget areas via an page in the WordPress admin area. What you do with those sidebars on the front end is up to you and your theme.</p>
<p><strong>This plugin requires PHP 5.3+</strong>. Please check your server configuration before installing.</p>
<p>Some use case ideas:</p>
<ul>
<li>The end user wants to associate sidebars with individual posts and pages. This plugin ould provide half that functionality: easily creating widget areas.</li>
<li>You need reusable content blocks and want to take advantage of the widget system.</li>
</ul>


Arbitrary Sidebars

Jory Hogeveen

<p>This plugin will add various options to implement off-canvas sidebars in your WordPress theme based on the Slidebars jQuery plugin.</p>
<h4>Overview / Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add off-canvas sidebars to the left, right, top and bottom of your website.</li>
<li>Use sidebar areas (widget-ready areas), menu locations or <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Actions-&-Filters" rel="nofollow ugc">custom hooks</a> to place content into the off-canvas sidebars.</li>
<li>You can add control buttons with a widget, menu item, <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcode</a> or with <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Theme-setup" rel="nofollow ugc">custom code</a>.</li>
<li>Various customisation options and settings available in the Appearances menu.</li>
<li>Extensive API for <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/PHP-API" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP</a> and <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/JavaScript-API" rel="nofollow ugc">JS</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility (IMPORTANT!)</h4>
<p>The structure of your theme is of great importance for this plugin. Please read the <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Theme-setup" rel="nofollow ugc">installation guide</a> carefully!!</p>
<p>This plugin should work with most themes and plugins although I can’t be sure for all use-cases. Also note that at this point it’s still a 0.x version…<br />
If the plugin does not work for your theme, please let me know through the support and add a plugins and themes list and I will take a look!</p>
<p><strong>Fixed elements (like sticky menu’s)</strong><br />
There are known issues with fixed elements and Slidebars. <a href="https://www.adchsm.com/slidebars/help/advanced-usage/elements-with-fixed-positions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for more information</a><br />
I’ve created two possible solutions for this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Legacy CSS solution. Use basic CSS2 positioning instead of CSS3 transform with hardware acceleration.</li>
<li>JavaScript solution. It is slower but still allows the use of hardware acceleration for animations.</li>
</ol>
<h4>It’s not working! / I found a bug!</h4>
<p>Please let me know through <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/off-canvas-sidebars" rel="ugc">support</a> and add a plugins and themes list! 🙂<br />
Or <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">submit an issue here on GitHub</a></p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Slidebars jQuery plugin by <a href="https://www.adchsm.com/slidebars/" title="Adam" rel="nofollow ugc">Adam</a>, thank you for this great plugin!</li>
</ul>
<h4>You can find me here:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/" title="GitHub" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.keraweb.nl/" title="Keraweb" rel="nofollow ugc">Keraweb</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nl.linkedin.com/in/joryhogeveen" title="LinkedIn profile" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Actions | Filters | API</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">See Wiki on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Slidebars jQuery plugin by <a href="https://www.adchsm.com/slidebars/" title="Adam" rel="nofollow ugc">Adam</a>, thank you for this great plugin!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Ideas?</h4>
<p>Please let me know through the support page!</p>


Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)

Add off-canvas sidebars (Slidebars) containing widgets, menus or other content using the Slidebars jQuery plugin.

Arbitrary Sidebars vs Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)