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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.

Jeremy Green

This plugin allows you to display random content anywhere on your site using a shortcode or widget. You can group your random content together, allowing you to display different content in multiple locations throughout your site.
The content is added via a custom post type, so you have full access to the tinyMCE editor. This allows you to easily add images, text, and links to your random content.
<h4>Using a widget</h4>
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<li>Navigate to Appearance->Widgets and add the Random Content widget to a sidebar.</li>
<li>Select a group from the dropdown. If you don’t create a group, the widget will use all entries.</li>
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<h4>Using a shortcode</h4>
Place the shortcode <code>[random_content]</code> anywhere on a post or page.
To choose entries from a specific group, add the <code>group_id</code> parameter. For example, <code>[random_content group_id="64"]</code>.
To specify the number of posts to show, add the <code>num_posts</code> parameter. For example, <code>[random_content group_id="13" num_posts="3"]</code>.

Random Content

Randomly display any content anywhere on your site.

Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget vs Random Content