shaunandrews

<p>Lets make widgets better. This plugin moves your wigdet areas (some call them sidebars) to the left, making them the focus of the screen. The list of available widgets now lives on the right. Available widgets are contained in their own scrollable div, helping resolve the age-old problem of scrolling and dragging. And widgets get some icons!</p>
<p>Your active widgets get a little love, too. Saving a widget no closes the controls, and you’ll get some feedback that your widget has saved.</p>
<p>This plugin is under active development and may break some things. Also, its not very friendly across various screen sizes, yet.</p>


Better Widgets

Make it easier to manage your site's widgets.

Kaspars

James Collins

<p>Use <a href="https://widgetcontext.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Context</a> to show and hide widgets on certain sections of your site — front page, posts, pages, archives, search, etc. Use targeting by URLs (with wildcard support) for maximum flexibility.</p>
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<h4>Premium Support</h4>
<p>Subscribe to our <a href="https://widgetcontext.com/pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Support service</a> and get the PRO 🚀 version of the plugin for free when it’s launched! Your support enables consistent maintenance and new feature development, and is greatly appreciated.</p>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<ul>
<li>Suggest code improvements <a href="https://github.com/kasparsd/widget-context-wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Report bugs and suggestions on <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-context" rel="ugc">WordPress.org forums</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/widget-context" rel="nofollow ugc">Help translate</a> to your language.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Widget visibility can be configured under individual widget settings under “Appearance <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Widgets” in your WordPress administration area or through the widget editing interface in the Customizer.</p>
<h4>Target by URL</h4>
<p>The “Target by URL” is a powerful feature for targeting sections of your website based on the request URLs. It was inspired by a similar feature in the <a href="https://www.drupal.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Drupal CMS</a>.</p>
<p>Use relative URLs such as <code>page/sub-page</code> instead of absolute URLs <code>https://example.com/page/sub-page</code> because relative URLs are more flexible and make the logic portable between different domains and server environments.</p>
<h4>Wildcards</h4>
<p>Use the wildcard symbol <code>*</code> for matching dynamic parts of the URL. For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>topic/widgets/*</code> to match all posts in the widgets category, if your permalink structure is set to <code>/topic/%category%/%postname%</code>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>page-slug/*</code> to match all child pages of the page-slug parent page.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use a trailing <code>?*</code> to capture URL with all query arguments such as <code>utm_source</code>, etc. For example, for every <code>blog/post-slug</code> also include <code>blog/post-slug?*</code>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Exclude by URL</h4>
<p>Specify URLs to ignore even if they’re matched by any of the other context rules. For example, enter <code>example/sub-page</code> to hide a widget on this page even when “All Posts” is selected under “Global Sections”.</p>


Widget Context

Show and hide widgets on specific posts, pages and sections of your site.

Better Widgets vs Widget Context