Cedaro

Brady Vercher

<p>Designed for simplicity and flexibility, Simple Page Sidebars gives WordPress users, designers, and developers the ability to assign custom sidebars to individual pages–without making any template changes. Existing sidebars can also be assigned in quick edit and bulk edit modes, helping save you time.</p>
<p>In contrast to some of the more complicated plugins available, Simple Page Sidebars aims for basic, core-like functionality and integration that’s easy to use without polluting your admin panel. And due to the way sidebars are saved, it utilizes built-in WordPress caching, so your site won’t be bogged down with additional queries.</p>
<p>Simple Page Sidebars also ships with a “Widget Area” widget for pulling all the widgets from one sidebar into another.</p>
<h3>Benefits</h3>
<ul>
<li>No more site-wide, generic sidebars. Each page (or section) can have its own widgets.</li>
<li>Complete control over the names of your custom sidebars.</li>
<li>Assign the same sidebar to multiple pages.</li>
<li>Modify a page’s sidebar without creating an unnecessary revision.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Advanced Usage</h3>
<p>If you want to assign custom sidebars to archive pages or replace multiple sidebars per page, this plugin likely won’t be the best solution. However it’s flexible enough to handle a wide range of page-based use cases. It can even be configured to work with Custom Post Types by adding a couple lines of code:</p>
<pre><code>function myprefix_init() {
    add_post_type_support( '{{post_type}}', 'simple-page-sidebars' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'myprefix_init' );
</code></pre>
<h3>Additional Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/simple-page-sidebars#postform" rel="ugc">Write a review</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cedaro/simple-page-sidebars" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cedaroco" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow @cedaroco</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cedaro.com/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_content=simple-page-sidebars-readme&utm_campaign=plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit Cedaro</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<h3>Custom Loops</h3>
<p>If your page has any custom loops or queries, they need to be followed by <code>wp_reset_query()</code>, otherwise the global <code>$post</code> variable will no longer reference the correct post and by the time the sidebar is displayed, Simple Page Sidebars won’t know which page is being viewed, possibly leading to an unexpected sidebar being displayed.</p>
<h3>Theme Sidebars</h3>
<p>Some themes register different sidebars for their page templates, which means there isn’t a default sidebar that can be replaced. To use Simple Page Sidebars in this instance, you can create a child theme and force page templates with custom sidebars to use the default sidebar.</p>


Simple Page Sidebars

Initially I was disappointing it didn't work on custom post types, but then bothered to read the instructions.
The developer had bothered to put down exactly how to do this:
function myprefix_init() {
    add_post_type_support( '{{post_type}}', 'simple-page-sidebars' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'myprefix_init' );
Works a treat! Very flexible. Great job.



Works great

Easy to understand how to use it and does exactly what it says. Great plugin.



Works great!

Easily assign custom, widget-enabled sidebars to any page.

Philipp Speck

<p>With this plugin you can edit sidebar contents like posts in the admin area and assign them from a dropdown menu to any post or page. It supports flexible dropping via widget for independent theme association.</p>
<p>It’s a matter of fact that people don’t want to code when they just want to change their contents. To keep a website interesting for visitors you can change the sidebar contents in context to the main content. Before you could realize it with different sidebar templates or conditional tags.<br />
Now you can do all these great things inside the admin area without any coding.<br />
Any anyway: Since we organize informations in databases all contents should be stored there as well.</p>
<p>From a dropdown menu you can easily choose all sidebars you have created.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Own <code>meta box</code> on post/page edit pages</li>
<li>Own menu item in admin menu</li>
<li>Registrates own <code>post type</code> for sidebars</li>
<li>Full editable sidebars like posts</li>
<li>Assign sidebars from dropdown menu</li>
<li>Flexible widget support</li>
<li>No coding needed</li>
<li>Oldest sidebar as default post</li>
<li>Loads sidebar from parent page if not assigned for children</li>
<li>Localization in English and German</li>
</ul>
<h4>Related Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.typomedia.org/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-custom-sidebar/" title="Homepage of WordPress Custom Sidebar" rel="nofollow ugc">Homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-custom-sidebar/changelog/" title="Changelog for WordPress Custom Sidebar" rel="ugc">Changelog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-custom-sidebar/faq/" title="FAQ for WordPress Custom Sidebar" rel="ugc">Questions</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><br />
First drop the widget in the sidebar of your choice. Now uses oldest sidebar as default sidebar. Before installing or upgrading new plugins, please backup your database first! After upgrading to ‘WordPress Custom Sidebar 2.0’ you have to assign the widget again.</p>


WordPress Custom Sidebar

With this plugin you can handle sidebar contents like posts and assign them from a dropdown menu.

Simple Page Sidebars vs WordPress Custom Sidebar