softwud

<p>The Page Blocks plugin <em>extends</em> your WordPress pages by combining the dynamic content of widgets with the static content of pages. Up to four “blocks” can be added to each page (two above and two below the page’s content), and widgets can be added to each block in the same way they are added to sidebars.</p>
<p>Content can be edited simply through the admin backend, removing the need for custom page templates for all but the most complex of blog designs. Two examples of what can be done with the plugin are shown in the Screenshots section:</p>
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<p>A home page with a welcome message in the page content above a widget displaying News posts on the left and a widget displaying the most recently created post on the right.</p>
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<p>A page showing a dynamically generated “Thank You” message for a customer returning from PayPal in a single page block at the top of the page using a standard text widget and the Exec-PHP plugin (before and after images).</p>
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<p>More detailed information is available on the <a href="http://wordpress.softwud.com" title="Page Blocks Plugin Website" rel="nofollow ugc">Page Blocks Plugin Website</a>, as well as support and contact information. You can also contact SoftWUD through this site if you’d like a custom theme, plugin, or widget developed.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
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<p><strong>No file editing needed</strong></p>
<p>Blocks are configured through the Page Write / Manage and Widgets admin pages. There is no need to edit PHP code or modify your theme in any way.</p>
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<p><strong>Blocks <em>will</em> work even if the theme is changed</strong></p>
<p>As long as the theme you use employs the WordPress “Loop” mechanism (and pretty much all themes do) then there won’t be any problems. Even if the “Loop” has been modified.</p>
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<p><strong>Each page can be configured with a different set of page blocks</strong></p>
<p>There are four blocks that can be enabled for each page – <strong><em>Top Left</em></strong>, <strong><em>Top Right</em></strong>, <strong><em>Bottom Left</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Bottom Right</em></strong>. For example you may have a Top Left on one page, a Bottom Left and Bottom Right on another, and all others may have none at all.</p>
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<p><strong>Each block can have it’s own CSS styling rules</strong></p>
<p>The plugin provides default CSS styling for the blocks assuming that all four blocks are enabled on a page. However CSS styling rules can be applied through the Page Write / Manage admin page to override these, or even your own theme’s styling rules.</p>
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<p><strong>The plugin <em>supports</em> password protected pages</strong></p>
<p>If you protect your page content with a password, the page blocks will also be hidden until the user enters a valid password.</p>
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Page Blocks

This plugin extends WordPress pages by allowing widgets to be placed above and below the page content reducing the need to code custom page templates.

Jory Hogeveen

<p>This plugin will add various options to implement off-canvas sidebars in your WordPress theme based on the Slidebars jQuery plugin.</p>
<h4>Overview / Features</h4>
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<li>Add off-canvas sidebars to the left, right, top and bottom of your website.</li>
<li>Use sidebar areas (widget-ready areas), menu locations or <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Actions-&-Filters" rel="nofollow ugc">custom hooks</a> to place content into the off-canvas sidebars.</li>
<li>You can add control buttons with a widget, menu item, <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcode</a> or with <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Theme-setup" rel="nofollow ugc">custom code</a>.</li>
<li>Various customisation options and settings available in the Appearances menu.</li>
<li>Extensive API for <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/PHP-API" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP</a> and <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/JavaScript-API" rel="nofollow ugc">JS</a>.</li>
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<h4>Compatibility (IMPORTANT!)</h4>
<p>The structure of your theme is of great importance for this plugin. Please read the <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/Theme-setup" rel="nofollow ugc">installation guide</a> carefully!!</p>
<p>This plugin should work with most themes and plugins although I can’t be sure for all use-cases. Also note that at this point it’s still a 0.x version…<br />
If the plugin does not work for your theme, please let me know through the support and add a plugins and themes list and I will take a look!</p>
<p><strong>Fixed elements (like sticky menu’s)</strong><br />
There are known issues with fixed elements and Slidebars. <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki/fixed-elements" rel="nofollow ugc">Wiki</a><br />
I’ve created two possible solutions for this:</p>
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<li>Legacy CSS solution. Use basic CSS2 positioning instead of CSS3 transform with hardware acceleration.</li>
<li>JavaScript solution. It is slower but still allows the use of hardware acceleration for animations.</li>
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<h4>It’s not working! / I found a bug!</h4>
<p>Please let me know through <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/off-canvas-sidebars" rel="ugc">support</a> and add a plugins and themes list! 🙂<br />
Or <a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">submit an issue here on GitHub</a></p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
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<li>Slidebars jQuery plugin by <a href="https://www.adchsm.com/slidebars/" title="Adam" rel="nofollow ugc">Adam</a>, thank you for this great plugin!</li>
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<h4>You can find me here:</h4>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/" title="GitHub" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.keraweb.nl/" title="Keraweb" rel="nofollow ugc">Keraweb</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nl.linkedin.com/in/joryhogeveen" title="LinkedIn profile" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn</a></li>
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<h4>Actions | Filters | API</h4>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/off-canvas-sidebars/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">See Wiki on GitHub</a></li>
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<h4>Credits</h4>
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<li>Slidebars jQuery plugin by <a href="https://www.adchsm.com/slidebars/" title="Adam" rel="nofollow ugc">Adam</a>, thank you for this great plugin!</li>
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<h4>Ideas?</h4>
<p>Please let me know through the support page!</p>


Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)

Add off-canvas sidebars (Slidebars) containing widgets, menus or other content using the Slidebars jQuery plugin.

Page Blocks vs Off-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)