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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.

Javik

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Sebastian Schwarz

Randomize simply displays randomized text. You’re able to deposit text passages, quotes and HTML code in the administration backend by categories. You can use the widget, a shortcode or template tag to show up randomized content on your site.
<h4>Ready for translation</h4>
Since version 1.4 was released Randomize is ready for translation. Feel free to add or support your language on <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/randomize" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>!
<h4>Development Notice</h4>
The original author has discontinued the development, so that I decided to continue the free distribution under the new name “Randomize”. It’s based on “Random Text” by pantsonhead.

Randomize

The plugin does what it should and the bulk actions and categories are super solved! It would still be nice if you could output each widget with an indvidual class or format such as Div, H1, H2.

Works well

Store and display randomized/rotated content by categories in sidebar widgets, pages, posts or templates.

Hackadelic Discreet Text Widget vs Randomize