Eric Marden

<p>A custom plugin that will display dynamic text from the values you enter in special custom fields on a post inside of a WordPress Widget.</p>
<p>Add any text you want as the value of the ‘posty’ custom field and it will show up in this widget. Title the widget with the ‘posty-title’ custom field. It only works on single posts.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The Posty Widget plugin was developed by Eric Marden, and is provided with out warranty under the GPLv2 License. More info and other plugins at: http://xentek.net</p>
<p>Copyright 2008  Eric Marden  (email : wp@xentek.net)</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program 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 General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA</p>


Posty Widget

A custom plugin that will display dynamic text from the values you enter in special custom fields on a post inside of a WordPress Widget.

<p>A plugin that enables you to have dedicated content and/or widget sidebar for each specific page or post. For example, on a featured blog post you may want to place additional contact while on a calendar page you might want to place a calender widget or some text events or both.</p>
<h3>Widget Support</h3>
<p>Widget support is enabled by default and you do not have to add any code. The only recommended change is that you go to your template’s functions.php file and remove any coding containing a function similar to the one below.</p>
<pre><code>if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar();
</code></pre>
<p>To enable widgets on a page or post, go to the manage screen and click ‘Add Widgets!’ to add or ‘Remove Widgets’ to remove.</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>This plugin is ONLY for WordPress 2.5+. It will not work with lower versions and may in fact corrupt the data in older versions. Please stay up to date with both WordPress and this plugin.</p>
<p>When using this plugin instead of Page Sidebars, this plugin will overwrite any of the widget configurations previously used. Also, do NOT use this script with Page Sidebars as it will lead to compatibility issues. Using this plugin will overwrite your other widget sidebars defined in your template. Proceed with caution.</p>
<p>For an older version of this plugin for WordPress versions 2.3.3 or lower, check out Page Sidebars.</p>


Core Sidebars

A small but useful plugin to have unique sidebars for each page/post.

Posty Widget vs Core Sidebars