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When you use a shortcode in a text widget to dynamically create its content, the shortcode may yield empty content in some contexts, leaving you with an ugly looking empty widget in your sidebar with nothing more than a title and a blank rectange.
What you want is a text widget that will only show up when it does have content. This is such a widget.
A use case when you will immediately benefit from <a href="http://hackadelic.com/solutions/wordpress/discreet-text-widget" title="Discreet Text Widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Discreet Text Widget</a> is when you want a <a href="http://hackadelic.com/solutions/wordpress/toc-boxes" title="Hackadelic SEO Table Of Contents" rel="nofollow ugc">Table of Contents</a> <a href="http://hackadelic.com/table-of-contents-in-the-sidebar" title="How To Add a Table Of Contents to the Sidebar" rel="nofollow ugc">in the sidebar</a>.
Check out the <a href="http://hackadelic.com/solutions/wordpress/discreet-text-widget" title="Discreet Text Widget" rel="nofollow ugc">plug-in homepage</a> for in-depth information about the plug-in.
<h3>License</h3>
This file is part of the Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget WordPress plugin.
Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU Affero General Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.

Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget

A smarter text widget that can be used to display table of contents in the sidebar.

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Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/enhanced-text-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">https://tastewp.com/plugins/enhanced-text-widget</a>. 
(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the URL)
Note: This is a classic widget type, in order for it to work on the latest version of WordPress you will need <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> plugin installed on your site.
UPDATE: Plugin ownership changed for this plugin. We are currently evaluating possible enhancements for it. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestions yourself, please let us know in the Support Forum.
An enhanced version of the default text widget where you may have Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes and/or PHP as content with linkable widget title.
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Title URL</li>
<li>Widget CSS class</li>
<li>Content supports Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes, and PHP</li>
<li>Option to not display a title</li>
<li>Option to open Title URL in new window</li>
<li>Option to automatically add paragraphs to content</li>
<li>Option to not output before/after_widget/title (bare widget)</li>
</ul>
For questions, please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-text-widget/" rel="ugc">support forum</a>
<h4>Support</h4>
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This plugin is part of the Inisev product family – <a href="https://inisev.com" rel="nofollow ugc">check out our other products</a>.

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Needed a simple widget to display some custom fields somewhere on my website. So added the relevent PHP and it just works as expected. Easy to use.

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This is the best plugin to add PHP via a widget.

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An enhanced version of the text widget that supports Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes and PHP with linkable widget title.

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