Swapnil V. Patil

Insert separate widgets or a entire widget area (sidebar) into a page using a shortcode.
Customize the widget setting in “widgets for shortcodely” widget area.No extra efforts. Exactly as you would do it for any other widget.
do_widget shortcode,will do its magic and display the widget or the even a chosen sidebar from the do_widget_area shortcode.
The plugins default action is that it will magically find the settings for your themes first sidebar and use them to control the widget’s output. In most cases this would mean that the widget will be styled as per the rest of your theme. In case, yout need to change the styling, there are parameters to override it.
Whenever you need to change your theme, the plugin automagically saves and restores the widgets and its settings. It will then select the sidebar setting from the currect theme you are using.
Instructions:
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<li>Make sure you test the widget in the regualr widget area, or any exisitng sidebar.</li>
<li>Then Activate shortcodely. (Ignore id already done.)</li>
<li>Go to Appearance > Widgets and find the ” widgets for shortcodely” sidebar or widget area</li>
<li>Add your desired widgets to the Shortcodely side bar. Save.</li>
<li>Go the Shortcodely settings. Click on one of the create page links to help you setup the shortcode.</li>
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OR go to an existing page and enter a shortcode:
[do_widget widgetname] eg: [do_widget calendar] 
[do_widget “widget name”]. eg: [do_widget “tag cloud”] 
[do_widget id=widgetid]
[do_widget_area] (will use the “widgets in shortcodes” widget area / sidebar 
[do_widget_area sidebarname] for another sidebar or widget area – eg: to maximise likelihood of getting your theme’s widget css to apply.
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If the plugin cannot work out what you want and you are logged in as an administrator, it will show a debug prompt to you, the logged in admin only. 
Click on the link ‘Try debug’. It will produce a bunch of info. Look for the id of your widget in the shortcodes sidebar (you may have to scroll through a lot of debug info). Try using the widget id. Sometimes the widget name that wordpress calls it internally is not the same as what you see on the screen and you will need the ‘debug’ to find the id.
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[do_widget …] Parameters:
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<li>nameofwidget or name=”nameofwidget” This is NOT the title of the widget. THis is the name that you see in the widgets menu page even when unassigned to a sidebar. For existing users , you can also use just the name of the widget without name=. It must bethe first parameter then.</li>
<li>id=wordpress assigned id of widget</li>
<li>title=false to hide the widgets title OR to override your themes first sidebar html settings for widget titles, use title=htmltag where htmltag is one of h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,header,strong,em. If not entered plugin will use the same title html that your themes first sidebar uses – yes even if you change themes, it will switch to the new themes html.</li>
<li>wrap=htmltag where htmltag is one of div,p,main,aside,section. This will override your themes first sidebar html settings for widget wrapping html.</li>
<li>widget_classes=none This will remove the class “widget” from the wrapping html and the class “widget_title” from the title html. This may be enough to remove any unwanted css styling from your theme.</li>
<li>class=yourclassname By default the plugin will add a class of amr-widget tto the wrapping html. You can use this to add any special css. Add css either by editing your themes stylesheet if it is a custom theme, or using something like the wordpress custom css plugin.</li>
<li>sidebar=”sidebarname” will default to widgets_for_shortcode sidebar. Only use if you want to re-use a widget already beingused in another sidebar. THis is theme dependent and WILL break if you change themes.</li>
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[do_widget_area …] Parameters:
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<li>widget_area=yourwidgetarea defaults to ‘widgets_for_shortcodes’ if nothing entered</li>
<li>widget_area_class=none /* option to remove theme styling by removing the widget_area class from the sidebar html */</li>
<li>widget_classes=none /* option to remove the widget class from the widget wrappinghtml</li>
<li>class=yourclassname default is amr_widget_area’</li>
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See the settings page for links to help your create the shortcodes in a page.
To ‘remove debug mode’ 
remove ?do_widget_debug=1 from the url you are looking at (NOTE it only debugs if you are logged in and an administrator, so this is really NOT a problem.)
The plugin has been tested with most standard widgets (rss feeds, tag cloud, pages, meta, search, and of course my own plugins widgets – upcoming events list, calendar and user lists.
If you use a widget more than once for different reasons, you may need to use the widget id to isolate which widget instance and it’s settings to use. ie: [do_widget id=categories-6] . If you just use the name, it will display all widgets in the shortcode sidebar with that name (all instances).
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Shortcodely

Enable the usage of shortcodes almost any where on your website

anmari

Insert a widget or multiple widgets or a entire widget area (sidebar) into a page using a shortcode.
Set up your widget first in a normal sidebar. Check it works. 
THEN Drag your chosen widgets to the sidebar called “widgets for shortcode”.
Add the do_widget shortcode to the page where you would like the widget to appear (or the do_widget_area)
To use in the block editor, add a shortcode block, then type in (including the square brackets [do_widget widgetname] or copy the do_widget tip from the widget in the ‘Widgets for Shortcodes’ sidebar.
Please see detailed info on shortcodes and parameters under the installation tab (depending what the plugin directory developers have most recently done, this may be under the FAQ, or at the very least under the readme.)
Using a widget more than once?
Reference a specific widget instance from the do_widget shortcode, or the chosen sidebar from the do_widget_area shortcode. Eg: [do_widget id=widget-n]
For example: You could use the query posts widget in the page to create a archive within a page, or the rss widget to list feed content from other sites. For more details see <a href="http://webdesign.anmari.com/category/plugins/shortcode-any-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">anmari.com</a>
The plugins default action is that it will magically find the settings for your themes sidebar and use the sidebar html to control the widgets output. In most cases this means the widget will be styled as per the rest of your theme. If that does not look good, parameters exist to try override this behaviour.
EG: in twenty-fourteen theme widget text ends up being white on white! widget_classes=none fixes that. Eg: [do_widget widget_classes=none yourwidget]
Changed your theme and worried about losing the sidebar settings ?
No problem, the plugin will save and restore the widgets_for_shortcode settings. On display it will then pick up the new themes sidebar settings.
Note:
PLEASE get your widgets working in a sidebar BEFORE activating this plugin, and please read https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/installation/ and https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/faq/ and/or see the settings page. To see a list of your widgets in their sidebars, add ?do_widget_debug to the page with the do_widget shortcode.

amr shortcode any widget

This tool works flawlessly. I was wondering about this kind of solution for a long. Thanks for creating this. I'll prepare a tutorial on it.

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Insert a widget or multiple widgets or a entire widget area (sidebar) into a page using a shortcode.

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