Curtiss Grymala

This plugin allows you to combine multiple widgets into a single tabbed/accordion-style interface in your theme.
<h4>Usage</h4>
To use this plugin, simply drag widgets into the “Collapsible Widget Area” widget area in Appearance -> Widgets within your admin area. Once you’ve done that, reload the Appearance -> Widgets page and drag the Collapsible Widget into the sidebar in which you want it to appear. Do not drag a “Collapsible Widget” into any of the existing “Collapsible Widget Area” sidebars.
<h4>Options</h4>
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<li>Within the Collapsible Widget itself, you can specify whether you want to use a Tab interface or an Accordion interface.</li>
<li>Under Settings -> Collapsible Widget Options, you can choose the jQueryUI theme you want to apply to the collapsible widget container. All of the included jQueryUI themes are hosted on Google’s CDN. If you already have a jQueryUI theme included in your WordPress theme, you can choose “None” from the option selector, and no extra stylesheet will be included for this widget. If you want to include your own jQueryUI theme, there are two ways you can do so:
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<li>Use the collapsible-widget-ui-theme filter to specify the exact URI of the stylesheet you want to include.</li>
<li>Use the collapsible-widget-theme-list filter to add or remove items from the list of available themes. The parameter sent through this filter is an associative array of the available themes. If the theme is hosted on Google’s CDN, just the keyword is needed as the array key (for instance, the keyword for the “UI Lightness” theme is “ui-lightness” and the keyword for the “Base” theme is “base”). If the theme is hosted elsewhere, the entire URI to the stylesheet should be used as the array key. The array value should be the human-readable name of the theme.</li>
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<li>Under Settings -> Collapsible Widget Options, you can specify how many separate Collapsible Widget Areas should be available within Appearance -> Widgets.</li>
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Collapsible Widget Area

Creates a tabbed or accordion-style widget that can hold other widgets.

Enej Bajgorić

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loongchan

Grand Prize winner of WordPress Plugin Competition 2009
Ever wanted to display a widget only on the front page? Subpages of certain pages? Posts with a certain tag? We’ve got you covered. With an extremely easy to use interface, you can create your section-specific widget in no time – without going through the frustration of writing PHP code (ala <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/" rel="ugc">Widget Logic</a>).
In addition to plain text and HTML, we have added shortcodes support into the mix. This means you can easily turn your crazy widget ideas into reality. Need a RSS widget for the posts in the “Movies” category? Yep, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-shortcode/" rel="ugc">there is a shortcode for that</a>. Show your AdSense ads only on the front page? <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-ads/" rel="ugc">There is a shortcode for that too</a> – not to mention <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/template-tag-shortcodes/" rel="ugc">tag clouds</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/paypal-shortcodes/" rel="ugc">Paypal</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-widgets-shortcodes/" rel="ugc">Amazon</a>… you name it. Or throw more CMS hotness into your sidebar with our <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conditional-custom-fields-shortcode/" rel="ugc">conditional custom fields</a> shortcodes. Checkout the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/section-widget/screenshots/" rel="ugc">screenshots</a> for more inspirations.
But before you hit the download button, we have saved a surprise for you. In order to help you fit all those insane ideas into your already crowded sidebar, we have decided to add tabs to the equation. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, creating your own tabbed widget is completely effortless – even for your grandparents. (See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/section-widget/screenshots/" rel="ugc">screenshots</a> for details.) To bring this to the next level, we have bundled 25 (!) switchable themes (powered by the <a href="http://jqueryui.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery UI</a> project) with the plugin – and we even included a on preview in the settings page! And of course, you can always roll your own theme to suit the design of your site. (A lite version with the 2 basic themes is also available <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/section-widget/download/" rel="ugc">here</a>.)
With all those awesome features, you should definitely download it and try it out. If you still cannot find a need for this, you’re probably using WordPress the wrong way 😉 Let us know what you think, drop us a line at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/section-widget?forum_id=10#postform" rel="ugc">forums</a> – we would love to hear about your creative ways of using this plugin!
If you are running a earlier version of the WordPress 3.5 or earlier don’t use the latest version of the plugin.
<h4>Built-in Conditionals</h4>
In this version, you can freely mix and match these predefined rules which gives you control of where the widget should be displayed:
<ul>
<li>Everywhere on your site (new)</li>
<li>The front page</li>
<li>The posts page (new)</li>
<li>All posts</li>
<li>All author pages</li>
<li>All or selected pages and subpages</li>
<li>Pages or posts with comments enabled</li>
<li>Pages or posts belongs to selected categories</li>
<li>Pages or posts with selected tags</li>
<li>All (new) or selected category archive pages</li>
<li>All (new) or selected tags archive pages</li>
<li>All date-based archive pages</li>
<li>Search results page (new)</li>
<li>“404” not found page (new)</li>
<li>Basic Support for Taxonomies</li>
<li>Basic Support for Post Types</li>
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Please note: JavaScript is required for the widget interface to display correctly.
This plugin will only run on WordPress 3.3+.

Section Widget

Display arbitrary information only on selected sections of your site. Also allows you to easily organize them into tabs in your sidebar.

Collapsible Widget Area vs Section Widget