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>
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<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>
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<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>


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<p>It allows you to show custom widget areas and menu locations created with this plugin in any part of your site (i.e, as sidebars, bottom widget areas , in header and plus with this plugin now you can also show it in your pages and posts contents.) There’s two way of using this plugins. To show it in posts or pages content use shortcode link “Get shortcode” and for other like to show as sidebars etc. use code link “Get code”.</p>


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