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.

mnmlthms

If you are looking for a plugin that help you to create unlimited sidebars for pages/posts/taxonomies… without coding skills, WP Custom Sidebars is what you’re looking for!.
Easily overriding sidebar positions on your site, no integration needed. Works with any WordPress theme.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Override any sidebars on your site.</li>
<li>Support Post types, Category, Tags or Custom Taxonomies.</li>
<li>Adding as many sidebars as you want.</li>
<li>Transferable/Importable sidebar data.</li>
<li>Translation ready with mo/po files.</li>
</ul>
Note that if you are using other custom sidebar plugins, you should disable them so WP Custom Sidebars won’t be confused on overriding sidebars 😀
How to use WP Custom Sidebars?
<ul>
<li>Step 1: Select post types you want to support custom sidebars in Appearance -> Sidebars -> General Settings tab.</li>
<li>Step 2: Create as many sidebars as you want. Then go to Appearance -> Widgets and add widgets to your sidebar you’ve just created.</li>
<li>Step 3: Go edit page/post or category/tag/custom taxonomies, then look for WP Custom Sidebars setting box, and overriding sidebars.</li>
</ul>
That’s it!
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WP Custom Sidebars

Create unlimited sidebars for pages/posts easily without writing a single line of code!

Sane Widget Sidebar Management vs WP Custom Sidebars