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>
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User Role Widget Areas

thinkerwebdesign

<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add sidebars to WP Posts and Pages with shortcodes using a sidebar Name or sidebar ID.</li>
<li>Add one or more optional custom classes to match your theme styles or custom CSS styles.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Use:</h4>
<p><strong>Method 1 – (Recommended Use: Add a sidebar using a sidebar Name.)</strong></p>
<p>A sidebar Name can be found in the <code>Appearance > Widgets</code> section of your WordPress Admin Area.</p>
<p><em>Example uses:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><code>[sidebar name="your-sidebar-name"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar name="your-sidebar-name" class="custom-class"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar name="your-sidebar-name" class="custom-class-1 custom-class-2 custom-class-3"]</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Method 2 – (Advanced WP Users: Add a sidebar using a sidebar ID.)</strong></p>
<p>A sidebar ID can be found in your theme’s <code>register_sidebar</code> functions, usually in the theme’s <code>functions.php</code> file.</p>
<p><em>Example uses:</em></p>
<ul>
<li><code>[sidebar id="your-sidebar-id"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar id="your-sidebar-id" class="custom-class"]</code></li>
<li><code>[sidebar id="your-sidebar-id" class="custom-class-1 custom-class-2 custom-class-3"]</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>General Notes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The spelling and capitalization of a shortcode Name or ID must exactly match that of the desired sidebar.</li>
<li>Definition of an active sidebar: An active sidebar is a sidebar that contains widgets.</li>
<li>A <code>[sidebar]</code> shortcode without an active sidebar Name or active sidebar ID displays nothing.</li>
<li>An active sidebar ID overrides a sidebar Name if both are present in the same shortcode.</li>
<li>There is no limit to the number of shortcodes that can be used on the same page or post.</li>
<li>The same sidebar shortcode can be used multiple times on the same page or post.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>HTML Class Notes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Separate multiple custom classes using a space character. Examples shown in <code>Method</code> sections above.</li>
<li>There is no limit to the number of custom classes that can be used.</li>
<li>Each custom class must only contain (letter,number,-,_) characters, otherwise all custom classes are omitted.</li>
<li>The sidebar ID is always added to the HTML class attribute if it contains only (letter,number,-,_) characters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Demo:</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.thinkerwebdesign.com/thinker-sidebar-shortcode-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit Plugin URI</a></p>


Sidebar Shortcode

Add sidebars to WordPress posts and pages using shortcodes with a sidebar Name or ID.

User Role Widget Areas vs Sidebar Shortcode