Rob Smelik

<h3>Description</h3>
<p>This plugin allows you to selectively display content in your themes active widget areas based on the user roles (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor or Subscriber) of logged in users. It also comes with two user status based widget areas for displaying content to all logged in users or all logged out users. All user role and status based widget areas can be displayed in any existing sidebar or widget area within your theme.</p>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>5 User role based widget areas, one for each of the standard WordPress user roles.</li>
<li>2 User status based widget areas, one for logged in users and one for logged out users.</li>
<li>2 Widgets for displaying your new widget areas on the front end (public site).</li>
<li>Additional shortcodes for displaying your user role and user status based widget areas.</li>
<li>The ability to hard code the script into your theme that displays the widget areas on the front end.</li>
<li>Uses standard WordPress <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">Roles and Capabilities</a> functions.</li>
<li>Well documented, lightweight code that is built for speed (the plugin itself is only 11kb).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Rate The Plugin</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin and find it useful please take a moment to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/user-role-widget-areas#postform" rel="ugc">rate it</a>. Thanks!</p>


User Role Widget Areas

BlueElevation.

<p>Are you also tired of those endless list of sidebars in your backend? Then fear no longer, 42functions is here to rescue you! We do that be elegantly categorise your widget into a clarifying view. We do that by grouping the pre defined categories together and simply showing only the one category you want.</p>
<h4>Using multiple themes?</h4>
<p>No worries we got that covered, the plugin recognizes the theme your using and shows you the corresponding settings!</p>
<h4>To lazy to categorise your theme?</h4>
<p>No worries we also can categorise theme for you, (if your developer uses proper prefixes). Just press the autoformat button and the plugin will start grouping your sidebars together. Please note: If this functionality doesn’t work for you, don’t complain at us, complain at the developer building your theme.</p>
<h4>My sidebars are fine, but I hate duplicated widgets!</h4>
<p>Well then don’t use our plugin for the wonderfull categorising but use it for the sidebar duplicator. This is simply a widget containing another sidebar.</p>
<h3>Developer</h3>
<p>You might have notice’d we’d implemented a autoformat button. We’de like to share our knowlege with you so you can be as lazy as you can get when activating this plugin. So wake up and take some coffee because this is how it works:</p>
<ol>
<li>We loop trough all registered sidebars.</li>
<li>When a sidebar has a ‘category’ field we take that as our active sidebar.</li>
<li>We split the id of the sidebar on a underscore (_) or a hyphen (-), when the splitting actually works the first group is considered as the category.</li>
<li>Your sidebar is listed under the other sidebars.</li>
</ol>
<p>Example of id conversions:</p>
<ul>
<li>post-archive-header | Will result in category: post</li>
<li>post_archive_header | Will also result in category: post</li>
<li>postarchiveheader | Will result in category: other</li>
</ul>


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