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<p>This plugin provides similar functionality to the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/sidecontent" rel="nofollow ugc">Drupal Side Content module</a>.</p>
<p>It enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content<br />
to it when editing a page.<br />
This enables you to extend the content of the page into the sidebar.</p>
<p>Suppose, for example, you have a set of pages about people in your company. You could use a side content<br />
widget to add a biography for each of them, or a photo, or to list their favourite pizza toppings.</p>
<p>You can use the plugin without any template changes at all, but it does provide a simple API so you can test for the presence of side content widgets and adjust your templates accordingly.</p>
<p>As of release 0.7 of the plugin, it supports the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">WP shortcode API</a>. There is also an extra add-on plugin which provides the same support for <a href="http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">NextGEN Gallery</a> shortcodes (development sponsored by <a href="http://www.comunicrea.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Comunicrea s. n. c.</a>).</p>
<p>Release 0.75 fixes a bug affecting side content widgets with names containing characters other than lowercase alphanumerics. A new contributed extension provides integration with the qTranslate plugin.</p>
<p>Release 0.8 adds no new functionality but makes the plugin compatible with WP 2.7.<br />
Release 0.9 adds no new functionality but makes the plugin compatible with WP 2.8.1.<br />
Release 1.0 adds no new functionality but makes the plugin compatible with WP 4.1.0.</p>
<h3>API</h3>
<p>Use the following code to test for the presence of side content widgets:</p>
<pre><code><?php if(function_exists('the_side_content') && the_side_content()->has_widgets() :?>
</code></pre>
<p>Use the following code to test for the presence of a particular side content widget called ‘widget name’:</p>
<pre><code><?php if(function_exists('the_side_content') && the_side_content()->has_widgets('widget name') :?>
</code></pre>
<p>The plugin defines a filter, ‘side_content’, which can be used to preprocess side content widgets before display.</p>


Side Content

Side Content enables you to create widgets which have different content on different pages.

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<p><strong>XWidgets lets you choose your widget layouts and settings for each individual page and post, instead of only having one layout applied to the whole site!</strong>  For example, you could have a Twitter feed in your website’s sidebar, but have your ‘about me’ page also display Flickr/Last.FM widgets in that page’s sidebar, with a completely different widget layout from the rest of your site — or you could have each page of your site pull in a different Google News feed via RSS — or you could add a poll to the sidebar of a specific post, without changing any others.</p>
<p>This plugin was developed alongside the PBox plugin. Using the two together greatly simplifies CMS-like layouts and functionality.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Choose widget settings from each indivdual page/post edit screen.</li>
<li>Pages can inherit widgets from their parent.</li>
<li>Pages/posts without widgets can use the global widgets (or if you prefer, none at all).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tips</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pbox/" rel="ugc">PBox</a> plugin to add highly customizable content widgets to your page sidebars.</li>
<li>Visit <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/25/advanced-power-tips-for-wordpress-template-developers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Smashing Magazine – Advanced Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers</a> for ideas about Multiple Column Content Techniques.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future Plans</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add widgets to taxonomies (Categories, Tags…)</li>
<li>Improve support for customized post types.</li>
</ul>


XWidgets

Gives you the ability to configure widgets on a per page basis.

Side Content vs XWidgets