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.

Trevor Anderson

Split sidebars and widget areas into responsive columns.
Two simple widgets are provided, “Layout: New Column” and “Layout: New Column on New Row”.
Simply place these in your widget area where you’d like to create a new column (split) or new row of columns.
Gutter size and responsive collapse options are available in the Customizer -> Widget Columns panel.

Tuxedo Responsive Widget Columns

Just tested this plugin, and it works exactly as I hoped for. I can now have complex layouts in any widget areas. 
Of course it's best used for horizontal widget areas like footers, etc...



Works perfectly!

Split sidebars and widget areas into responsive columns.

Sane Widget Sidebar Management vs Tuxedo Responsive Widget Columns