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Joachim Jensen

<h3>Content Aware Sidebars is the #1 WordPress Sidebar Plugin</h3>
<p>You can optimize conversion rates, boost on-site SEO, upsell products, and much more by displaying different widget areas on different conditions.</p>
<p>Create tailored widget areas in seconds. No widget logic coding required.</p>
<h3>Show or Hide Widgets on Any Page (Yes, any)</h3>
<p><strong>Replace your theme sidebars on different conditions</strong>, or insert widget areas with shortcodes. The following Display Conditions are available out of the box:</p>
<ul>
<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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<p><strong>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.</strong></p>
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<h3>Add Unlimited Sidebars & Widget Areas</h3>
<p>Create a post sidebar, a page sidebar, a category sidebar, or any custom sidebar you need – no coding required. <strong>CAS will never slow down your site</strong>, even if you create a lot of custom sidebars and conditions.</p>
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<p><strong>Sidebars – Quick Select© lets you add or select widget areas directly when editing a post or page.</strong></p>
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<h3>Schedule & Disable Custom Sidebars</h3>
<p>In the All-in-one Sidebar Manager you <strong>just pick a start and end date</strong> for when widget areas should be displayed, and CAS will take care of the rest.</p>
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<p><strong>1-Click Sidebar Activation© lets you activate or deactivate widget areas instantly.</strong></p>
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<h3>The Most User-friendly Widget Manager</h3>
<p>When adding new widgets to sidebars, <strong>Live Search will find widgets instantly</strong>, and the smart split-screen makes it a joy to manage a lot of widgets and sidebars.</p>
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<p><strong>The Enhanced Widget Manager adds the signature turquoise line to easily identify custom sidebars.</strong></p>
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<h3>Sidebar Plugin Integrations & Support</h3>
<p><strong>CAS autodetects Custom Post Types and Taxonomies</strong> 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.</p>
<ul>
<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>
<p>Without writing any code, you can <strong>modify the HTML and CSS classes</strong> 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.</p>
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<p><strong>Sidebar Visibility lets you elegantly hide any widget area for logged-out users.</strong></p>
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<h3>Complete control over your WordPress widget areas</h3>
<p><strong><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></strong> and get these additional powerful features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Totem – Smart Floating Button</strong><br />
Like the button you may have seen by Intercom or Helpscout, only this is for all your widgets</li>
<li><strong>Sticky Sidebars & Widget Areas</strong><br />
Make any sidebar or widget area sticky without hurting site performance. No jQuery and no bloat</li>
<li><strong>Widget Areas after Paragraphs</strong><br />
Display a widget area after a specific number or percentage of paragraphs in your content</li>
<li><strong>Even More Display Conditions</strong>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Widget Area Designer</strong><br />
Add responsive widget columns and edit colors, backgrounds, paddings, etc.</li>
<li><strong>Widget Areas in Theme Hooks</strong><br />
Intelligently infuse new widget areas into your theme without coding</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Widgets Backup</strong><br />
Easily restore any changed or deleted widgets</li>
<li><strong>Widget Cleaner</strong><br />
Save memory and remove clutter by disabling and removing unused widgets</li>
<li><strong>Extended User Visibility</strong><br />
Show or hide widget areas for User Roles, BuddyPress Groups, and more</li>
<li><strong>Time & Weekday Schedule</strong><br />
Display widget areas only in select time ranges on given days</li>
<li><strong>Container Widget</strong><br />
Turn widget areas into reusable blocks and show the same widgets in different places</li>
<li><strong>Duplicate Widget Areas</strong><br />
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>
</ul>
<p>Upgrade at anytime instantly and securely from your website’s Admin Dashboard.</p>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<ul>
<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!

Jeffrey Carandang

Marketing Fire

<p>Widget Options gives you super powers to control your site’s sidebar widgets and all Gutenberg blocks on pages & posts.</p>
<p>👉 Over 2,700,000+ downloads<br />
👉 Average rating of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.9 stars<br />
👉 Reduce plugin bloat. Widgets AND Gutenberg block control in one plugin</p>
<p>Widget Options expands Widget & Gutenberg block settings with feature-packed options so you can completely manage and control their visibility, appearance, and behavior. Show or hide content depending on user roles, devices, dates, URL…and more!</p>
<p><strong> ✨ INSIDER TIP: ✨ Power users love the <a href="https://widget-options.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version—unlock conditional logic, animation effects, sticky widgets, custom styling, and dozens of advanced controls</a> to make your blocks and widgets do exactly what you want. </strong></p>
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<h3>Take Full Control over your WordPress Widgets & Gutenberg Blocks</h3>
<p>Widget Options’ suite of controls makes it simple to achieve all of the following:</p>
<h4>✅ EASILY MANAGE WIDGET & GUTENBERG BLOCK VISIBILITY ON YOUR WORDPRESS SITE</h4>
<p>Effortlessly manage visibility and access across different pages, posts, and categories with the Widget Options plugin.With intuitive search or checkbox selections, customize your site’s layout for categories, tags, custom post types, and more, ensuring your widgets and blocks appear exactly where you want them!</p>
<h4>✅ SHOW OR HIDE WIDGETS OR BLOCKS ON MOBILE DEVICES, DESKTOP AND/OR TABLET</h4>
<p>Enhance your website’s mobile experience with Widget Options. This tool allows you to streamline navigation by selectively displaying widgets or blocks on mobile devices. Keep your desktop and tablet interfaces unaffected while optimizing mobile views. The ‘Device Visibility’ feature in the widget settings clearly indicates which sidebar widgets are active on different devices, ensuring a flexible and user-friendly widget management.</p>
<h4>✅ USER LOGIN STATE</h4>
<p>Decide which widgets or Gutenberg blocks should be visible or hidden to either logged-in or non-logged-in users. This feature is helpful when you want certain website functions to be available only to registered users.</p>
<h4>✅ CUSTOM WORDPRESS WIDGET ALIGNMENTS</h4>
<p>Change your widget or block alignment to match the entire look of your website. Comes with <strong>center, left, right, and justified alignment</strong><strong> options which can be customized for each device type.</strong></p>
<h4>✅ CUSTOM WIDGET ID & CLASSES</h4>
<p>Create predefined classes on the plugin’s settings page and use them later for each widget. You can also add custom widget ID and additional classes for styling or javascript purposes.</p>
<h4>✅ DISPLAY WIDGET LOGIC</h4>
<p>Use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Conditional</a> tags to manage and restrict your widgets or Gutenberg blocks using display widget logic option if you’re geeky enough to use PHP conditions and in need of custom restrictions.</p>
<h4>✅ HIDE WIDGET TITLE</h4>
<p>Easily hide widget titles from the front-end display while retaining them on the backend dashboard for labeling.</p>
<h4>✅ ENABLE / DISABLE WIDGET OPTIONS FEATURES</h4>
<p>Tailor your experience effortlessly by selecting only the features you desire, and easily disable any unwanted widget options features through the intuitive settings page.</p>
<h4>✅ WIDGET BLOCK EDITOR</h4>
<p>Choose between the Classic Widget or Gutenberg Block Widget Editor with our latest feature. Experience the classic design with the old widget or embrace the power of blocks with the modern widget. Ideal for users who love the Gutenberg experience!</p>
<h4>✅ STICKY/FIXED WORDPRESS WIDGETS (PRO)</h4>
<p>This premium feature allows widgets to be always visible to users as they scroll up and down a webpage. Make your most important widgets sticky or fixed so that users can access them easily.</p>
<h3>Widget Option’s Time-Saving Features</h3>
<p>Widget plugins shouldn’t only give you control over your widgets. They must also save you a lot of time! Here are Widget Options’ features that can do that:</p>
<h4>✅ LIVE WIDGET SEARCH FILTER</h4>
<p>Admins save time and manage widgets more efficiently by enabling the live widget search box on your widget dashboard to locate widgets easier. No need to scroll the page.</p>
<h4>✅ NO NEED TO DRAG WORDPRESS WIDGETS TO MOVE THEM</h4>
<p>Increase productivity and improve widgets management by moving any widgets easily with just a click-and-select action. No more drag-and-drop! This is a convenient option especially when using small-screen devices such as tablets or mobile phones.</p>
<h4>✅ IMPORT & EXPORT WIDGETS AND WIDGET AREA BACKUP</h4>
<p>You can now import and export WordPress widgets easily and create backups of specific sidebar widget areas. Move widgets to another website with ease.</p>
<h4>✅ VIEW YOUR CHANGES LIVE</h4>
<p>This plugin is customizer-ready for easier modification. View your changes live before saving it!</p>
<h3>Compatible with Most Major Page Builders</h3>
<p>Some widget plugins may not work well with page builders. Widget Options supports Gutenberg, SiteOrigin, Elementor, and Beaver, helping you manage widget visibility and placement with ease.</p>
<h4>🛠️ GUTENBERG BLOCK EDITOR BY WORDPRESS</h4>
<p>Widget Options gives you full control over the visibility of Gutenberg Blocks, which are the building blocks for many themes and sites today. Simply select the content block you want to edit and you will see all of the Widget Options abilities on the right side settings panel.</p>
<h4>🛠️ PAGE BUILDER BY SITEORIGIN PLUGIN COMPATIBLE</h4>
<p>With Widget Options on your website that is powered by SiteOrigin Page Builder, you can add more control to the widget panels. Manage visibility on specific device types, change alignments, hide widget panel title, add custom classes, and control visibility using display widget logic option!</p>
<h4>🛠️ ELEMENTOR PAGE BUILDER READY</h4>
<p>Extend Widget Options’ visibility restrictions on elementor widgets! You can now have the same widget management features available to your Elementor-powered websites.</p>
<h4>🛠️ BEAVER BUILDER PLUGIN READY</h4>
<p>Widget Options now comes with Beaver Builder plugin integration – integrated for a smooth website building workflow. You can fully manage each module in many ways you want!</p>
<h4>🛠️ ADVANCED CUSTOM FIELDS (ACF) SUPPORT</h4>
<p>Easily show or hide any widget using your ACF fields and conditions. You can create restrictions on your widgets with the following conditions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Equal To</li>
<li>Not Equal To</li>
<li>Contains</li>
<li>Does Not Contain</li>
<li>Is Empty</li>
<li>Is Not Empty</li>
</ul>
<p>The ACF function is also available for Elementor and Beaver Builder.</p>
<h3>UPGRADE TO THE WIDGET OPTIONS EXTENDED PLUGIN</h3>
<p>Turn Widget Options into an even more flexible widget area manager. Upgrade to <a href="http://widget-options.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Extended</a> today!</p>
<h4>✨ PREMIUM FEATURES ✨</h4>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Unlock more features for Gutenberg widgets and blocks (pages, posts and other custom post types)</li>
<li>NEW: Widget visibility for author’s contents and archive page</li>
<li>Inherit page parent visibility</li>
<li>NEW: Filter multiple pages by keyword-containing slug</li>
<li>Target URLs and wildcard restrictions</li>
<li>Clone widgets</li>
<li>Custom widget links</li>
<li>Advanced widget visibility control by user role</li>
<li>Sticky / fixed WordPress widgets</li>
<li>Custom widget columns display</li>
<li>NEW: Widget visibility per days and date range (+ option to ignore year)</li>
<li>Custom WordPress widget styling</li>
<li>Widget cache</li>
<li>Extended taxonomy and terms support</li>
<li>Display sidebars and widgets using shortcodes</li>
<li>Disable any WordPress widgets</li>
<li>Permission options (control who can edit widget settings based on user role)</li>
</ul>
<p>👉👉 Check out the full list of <a href="http://widget-options.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Extended features here</a>.</p>
<h3>ADD-ONS</h3>
<p>Check out the <a href="https://widget-options.com/features/modal-pop-up-and-sliding-widget-options/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sliding Widget Options</a> add-on! Transform any of your widgets into:</p>
<ul>
<li>A modal pop-up</li>
<li>A slide in/toaster</li>
<li>A chat box</li>
<li>…any other animated sliding panel you can think of to increase your website’s user engagement!</li>
</ul>
<h3>CONTACT AND CREDITS</h3>
<p>Widget Options for WordPress is regularly maintained and developed by the <a href="https://widget-options.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Team</a>.</p>
<p>We work hard to keep Widget Options up-to-date and expanding, to make the most powerful widget and block manager on WordPress even more, well… powerful! 💪</p>
<p>If you would like to contribute, report issues or have suggestions, you can find the development version on <a href="https://github.com/WidgetOptions/widget-options" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<p>You can also visit us at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKC5IAqoz4Q7nW0WzueQFw" rel="nofollow ugc">Youtube Channel</a>.</p>
<h3>Contact and Credits</h3>
<p>Widget Options for WordPress is maintained and developed by <a href="https://widget-options.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widget Options Team</a>.</p>


Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets


I needed to hide specific widgets from specific pages and this plugin made it SUPER simple to do that. Thank you.


Saved me a lot of time

Widget Options gives you advanced visibility control over your sidebar widgets and Gutenberg blocks on pages, posts, and custom post types.

Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin vs Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets