webdevstudios

Justin Sternberg

If you have ever needed to accommodate a client’s request to have separate widget areas for many sections of the site, you understand the need for this plugin.
This plugin alleviates the pain of having many sidebar widget areas by hiding all but one (that is selectable via a dropdown). Gone are the days of trying to drag a new widget from the left column to a widget area at the bottom of the right column (ugh!).
There is no configuration for this plugin.
Contribute on <a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>.

Sane Widget Sidebar Management

Manage one widget area at a time to maintain widget sanity.

FuzzGuard

This plugin allows you to display widget items based on if a user is logged in, logged out or based on the role you have given the user.
This plugin allows fine-grained permissions to be added to each individual widget item to display or not display the item based on the 
 users logged in/logged out status or the role assigned to the user. This solves the problem of having to modify theme functions.php files to add in widget restrictions. The changes in functions.php is often overwritten by a theme update. This plugin removes that worry, as you can update the theme, independent of the plugin.

Privilege Widget

This plugin allows you to display widget items based on if a user is logged in, logged out or based on the role you have given the user.

Sane Widget Sidebar Management vs Privilege Widget