BlueElevation.

<p>Are you also tired of those endless list of sidebars in your backend? Then fear no longer, 42functions is here to rescue you! We do that be elegantly categorise your widget into a clarifying view. We do that by grouping the pre defined categories together and simply showing only the one category you want.</p>
<h4>Using multiple themes?</h4>
<p>No worries we got that covered, the plugin recognizes the theme your using and shows you the corresponding settings!</p>
<h4>To lazy to categorise your theme?</h4>
<p>No worries we also can categorise theme for you, (if your developer uses proper prefixes). Just press the autoformat button and the plugin will start grouping your sidebars together. Please note: If this functionality doesn’t work for you, don’t complain at us, complain at the developer building your theme.</p>
<h4>My sidebars are fine, but I hate duplicated widgets!</h4>
<p>Well then don’t use our plugin for the wonderfull categorising but use it for the sidebar duplicator. This is simply a widget containing another sidebar.</p>
<h3>Developer</h3>
<p>You might have notice’d we’d implemented a autoformat button. We’de like to share our knowlege with you so you can be as lazy as you can get when activating this plugin. So wake up and take some coffee because this is how it works:</p>
<ol>
<li>We loop trough all registered sidebars.</li>
<li>When a sidebar has a ‘category’ field we take that as our active sidebar.</li>
<li>We split the id of the sidebar on a underscore (_) or a hyphen (-), when the splitting actually works the first group is considered as the category.</li>
<li>Your sidebar is listed under the other sidebars.</li>
</ol>
<p>Example of id conversions:</p>
<ul>
<li>post-archive-header | Will result in category: post</li>
<li>post_archive_header | Will also result in category: post</li>
<li>postarchiveheader | Will result in category: other</li>
</ul>


Improved widget area

Take your widget area to the next level by categorising it.

thinkerwebdesign

<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add sidebars to WP Posts and Pages with shortcodes using a sidebar Name or sidebar ID.</li>
<li>Add one or more optional custom classes to match your theme styles or custom CSS styles.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Use:</h4>
<p><strong>Method 1 – (Recommended Use: Add a sidebar using a sidebar Name.)</strong></p>
<p>A sidebar Name can be found in the <code>Appearance > Widgets</code> section of your WordPress Admin Area.</p>
<p><em>Example uses:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><code>[sidebar name="your-sidebar-name"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar name="your-sidebar-name" class="custom-class"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar name="your-sidebar-name" class="custom-class-1 custom-class-2 custom-class-3"]</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Method 2 – (Advanced WP Users: Add a sidebar using a sidebar ID.)</strong></p>
<p>A sidebar ID can be found in your theme’s <code>register_sidebar</code> functions, usually in the theme’s <code>functions.php</code> file.</p>
<p><em>Example uses:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><code>[sidebar id="your-sidebar-id"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar id="your-sidebar-id" class="custom-class"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar id="your-sidebar-id" class="custom-class-1 custom-class-2 custom-class-3"]</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>General Notes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The spelling and capitalization of a shortcode Name or ID must exactly match that of the desired sidebar.</li>
<li>Definition of an active sidebar: An active sidebar is a sidebar that contains widgets.</li>
<li>A <code>[sidebar]</code> shortcode without an active sidebar Name or active sidebar ID displays nothing.</li>
<li>An active sidebar ID overrides a sidebar Name if both are present in the same shortcode.</li>
<li>There is no limit to the number of shortcodes that can be used on the same page or post.</li>
<li>The same sidebar shortcode can be used multiple times on the same page or post.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>HTML Class Notes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Separate multiple custom classes using a space character. Examples shown in <code>Method</code> sections above.</li>
<li>There is no limit to the number of custom classes that can be used.</li>
<li>Each custom class must only contain (letter,number,-,_) characters, otherwise all custom classes are omitted.</li>
<li>The sidebar ID is always added to the HTML class attribute if it contains only (letter,number,-,_) characters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Demo:</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thinkerwebdesign.com/thinker-sidebar-shortcode-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit Plugin URI</a></p>


Sidebar Shortcode

Add sidebars to WordPress posts and pages using shortcodes with a sidebar Name or ID.

Improved widget area vs Sidebar Shortcode