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<h3>Content Aware Sidebars is the #1 WordPress Sidebar Plugin</h3>
You can optimize conversion rates, boost on-site SEO, upsell products, and much more by displaying different widget areas on different conditions.
Create tailored widget areas in seconds. No widget logic coding required.
<h3>Show or Hide Widgets on Any Page (Yes, any)</h3>
Replace your theme sidebars on different conditions, or insert widget areas with shortcodes. The following Display Conditions are available out of the box:
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<li>Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Content with Tags, Categories, or Custom Taxonomies</li>
<li>Content written by select Authors</li>
<li>Page Templates</li>
<li>Blog Page & Post Type Archives</li>
<li>Author Archives</li>
<li>Taxonomy Archives</li>
<li>Front Page, Search Results, 404 Not Found Page</li>
<li>bbPress Profiles, Forums & Topics</li>
<li>BuddyPress Profile Sections</li>
<li>Languages (Polylang, qTranslate X, TranslatePress, Transposh, Weglot, WPML)</li>
<li>Pods Pages</li>
</ul>
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You can even combine conditions in any way you like! E.g. target all posts in a select category and written by a specific author.
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<h3>Add Unlimited Sidebars & Widget Areas</h3>
Create a post sidebar, a page sidebar, a category sidebar, or any custom sidebar you need – no coding required. CAS will never slow down your site, even if you create a lot of custom sidebars and conditions.
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Sidebars – Quick Select© lets you add or select widget areas directly when editing a post or page.
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<h3>Schedule & Disable Custom Sidebars</h3>
In the All-in-one Sidebar Manager you just pick a start and end date for when widget areas should be displayed, and CAS will take care of the rest.
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1-Click Sidebar Activation© lets you activate or deactivate widget areas instantly.
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<h3>The Most User-friendly Widget Manager</h3>
When adding new widgets to sidebars, Live Search will find widgets instantly, and the smart split-screen makes it a joy to manage a lot of widgets and sidebars.
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The Enhanced Widget Manager adds the signature turquoise line to easily identify custom sidebars.
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<h3>Sidebar Plugin Integrations & Support</h3>
CAS autodetects Custom Post Types and Taxonomies created by any plugin or theme. Built-in support for some of the most popular WordPress plugins means that you e.g. can create WooCommerce sidebars for select products or BuddyPress sidebars for your members.
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<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/bbpress/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/buddypress/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress / BuddyBoss</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/easy-digital-downloads/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/multilingual-plugins/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">qTranslate X</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/pods/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Pods</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/multilingual-plugins/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Polylang</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/multilingual-plugins/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">TranslatePress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/multilingual-plugins/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Transposh Translation Filter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/woocommerce/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/multilingual-plugins/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Weglot</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/multilingual-plugins/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=integration&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a></li>
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<h3>Customize Your Widget Areas Your Way</h3>
Without writing any code, you can modify the HTML and CSS classes of widget areas, widgets, and widget titles. You get full control over the look and feel of your sidebars and widget areas, no matter what theme you use.
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Sidebar Visibility lets you elegantly hide any widget area for logged-out users.
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<h3>Complete control over your WordPress widget areas</h3>
<a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=title&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Content Aware Sidebars Pro</a> and get these additional powerful features:
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<li>Totem – Smart Floating Button 
Like the button you may have seen by Intercom or Helpscout, only this is for all your widgets</li>
<li>Sticky Sidebars & Widget Areas 
Make any sidebar or widget area sticky without hurting site performance. No jQuery and no bloat</li>
<li>Widget Areas after Paragraphs 
Display a widget area after a specific number or percentage of paragraphs in your content</li>
<li>Even More Display Conditions
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<li>Advanced Custom Fields data</li>
<li>Meta Box data</li>
<li>URLs + wildcards</li>
<li>Referrer URLs</li>
<li>Date Archives & Content by publish date</li>
<li>BuddyPress Groups</li>
<li>Random</li>
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<li>Widget Area Designer 
Add responsive widget columns and edit colors, backgrounds, paddings, etc.</li>
<li>Widget Areas in Theme Hooks 
Intelligently infuse new widget areas into your theme without coding</li>
<li>Automatic Widgets Backup 
Easily restore any changed or deleted widgets</li>
<li>Widget Cleaner 
Save memory and remove clutter by disabling and removing unused widgets</li>
<li>Extended User Visibility 
Show or hide widget areas for User Roles, BuddyPress Groups, and more</li>
<li>Time & Weekday Schedule 
Display widget areas only in select time ranges on given days</li>
<li>Container Widget 
Turn widget areas into reusable blocks and show the same widgets in different places</li>
<li>Duplicate Widget Areas 
A real time-saver when adding new similar widget areas</li>
<li><a href="https://dev.institute/wordpress-sidebars/pricing/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=more&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">and so much more…</a></li>
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Upgrade at anytime instantly and securely from your website’s Admin Dashboard.
<h3>More Information</h3>
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<li><a href="https://dev.institute/docs/content-aware-sidebars/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=info&utm_campaign=cas" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/intoxstudio/content-aware-sidebars" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/intoxstudio" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
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Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin

Display new sidebars on any post, page, category etc. Works with Classic Widgets, Block Widgets, and all themes!

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Manage and replace sidebars and other classic widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.
Make custom sidebar configurations and be able to choose what classic widgets display on each page or post of your site.
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<li>Need to make a widget sticky or fixed? Try our free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sticky-menu-or-anything-on-scroll/" rel="ugc">WP Sticky Anything</a> plugin.</li>
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Custom Sidebars works ONLY with the classic widgets screen that was used in WordPress before version 5.8. If you want to use it with version 5.8 (and above) you have to install the official <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> plugin, or enable the classic widgets interface yourself. Once the classic widgets screen is activated the plugin will work the same as before.
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<li>Having problems setting up SSL or generating an SSL certificate? Install the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-force-ssl/" rel="ugc">WP Force SSL</a> plugin.</li>
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<h4>Display Different Sidebars on Pages and Posts</h4>
Custom Sidebars allows you to dynamically display custom widget configurations on any page, post, category, post type, or archive page.
★★★★★
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“Custom Sidebars will go on my “essential plugins” list from now on. I am pleased by how easy it was to figure out and by how many options are available in the free version.” – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/monkeyhateclean" rel="nofollow ugc">monkeyhateclean</a>
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★★★★★
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“This plugin does exactly what it says. It’s light, integrates well into WordPress and gives you tons of possibilities.” – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/darknova11" rel="nofollow ugc">DarkNova</a>
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Every part of Custom Sidebars integrates seamlessly with the Widgets menu for simplicity and control. No confusing settings pages or added menu items, just simple core integration.
<h4>A Simple Flexible Sidebar Manager</h4>
** Custom Sidebars Includes: ** 
* Unlimited custom widget configurations 
* Set custom widgets for individual posts and pages, categories, post types, and archives 
* Seamless integration with the WordPress Widgets menu 
* Works with well-coded themes and doesn’t slow down your site 
* Set individual widget visibility – for guests, by user role, by post type, for special pages or categories 
* Author specific sidebars – display a custom sidebar for each of your authors 
* Clone and sync widget settings – quickly edit complex configurations 
* Import and export custom sidebars – backup and share sidebars
Install Custom Sidebars and see for yourself why it’s the most popular widget extension plugin available for WordPress with over 200,000 active installs.
<h3>Contact and Credits</h3>
Original development completed by <a href="http://marquex.es/" rel="nofollow ugc">Javier Marquez</a>.

Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager

Flexible sidebars for custom classic widget configurations on any page or post. Create custom sidebars with ease!

Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin vs Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager