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Widgets Control is a toolbox that features visibility management for all widgets, sidebars, sections of content and content blocks. 
It allows to show widgets and sidebars based on conditions – you can choose to show them only on certain pages or exclude them from being displayed.
Sections of content can also be restricted by using this plugin’s <code>[widgets_control]</code> shortcode.
You can also define new WYSIWYG Content Blocks that can be used in widgets, sidebars and with shortcodes.
For each widget and sidebar, you can decide where it should be displayed:
<ul>
<li>show it on all pages</li>
<li>show it on some pages</li>
<li>show it on all except some pages</li>
</ul>
… you can target small, medium or large screens for mobile, tablet and desktop users.
To include or exclude pages, the plugin allows you to indicate page ids, titles or slugs and tokens that identify the front page, categories, tags, etc.
In addition to page ids, titles and slugs, these tokens can be used to determine where a widget should or should not be displayed:
<pre><code>[home] [front] [single] [page] [category] ...
</code></pre>
On sites using <a href="https://wpml.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>, widgets can be shown conditionally based on the language viewed.
The <code>[widgets_control]</code> shortcode is used to embed content and show it conditionally similar to the visibility options used for widgets and sidebars. 
For example, <code>[widgets_control conditions="{archive}"]This text is shown only when the content is displayed on an archive page.[/widgets_control]</code>.
Widgets Control also provides flexible WYSIWYG Content Blocks and a proper widget that can be used to place them in sidebars, 
the <code>[widgets_control_content]</code> shortcode to embed freely created blocks anywhere on your pages and 
API functions that allow to include these blocks in PHP templates of your theme. 
For even more flexible control, use <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/widgets-control-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control Pro</a> which provides freely definable additional sidebars.
Use display conditions to show or hide content on devices with small, medium or large displays, useful to adapt the display to mobile, tablet and desktop viewers.
See the <a href="http://docs.itthinx.com/document/widgets-control/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> for more details.
Widgets Control works with virtually any widget. It is compatible with lots of plugins, among these it has been tested with:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/" rel="ugc">Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/affiliates/" rel="ugc">Affiliates</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/decent-comments/" rel="ugc">Decent Comments</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/woocommerce-product-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Product Search</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-live/" rel="ugc">Search Live</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/documentation/" rel="ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/" rel="ugc">Events Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddypress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress/" rel="ugc">bbPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms" rel="ugc">Ninja Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gravityforms.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Forms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/" rel="ugc">Jetpack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpml.org" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" rel="ugc">NextGEN Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-widget/" rel="ugc">Image Widget</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/" rel="ugc">MailChimp for WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/" rel="ugc">The Events Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters" rel="ugc">MailPoet Newsletters</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/" rel="ugc">Elementor</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Widgets Control Pro</h3>
Our <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/widgets-control-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control Pro</a> provides additional features:
<ul>
<li>Conditions based on the viewed post type. For example, show a widget only on posts with <code>[type:post]</code> or only on product pages with <code>[type:product]</code></li>
<li>Show or hide widgets on full page hierarchies, where conditions are based on a parent page and all its child pages: <code>some-page/*</code></li>
<li>Show or hide widgets based on user roles. For example, show a widget to subscribers and customers only: <code>[role:subscriber,customer]</code></li>
<li>Show or hide widgets based on a user’s group membership with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/" rel="ugc">Groups</a>. For example, show a widget only to registered users with <code>[group:Registered]</code> or show a widget only to users in a Premium group using <code>[group:Premium]</code></li>
<li>Show or hide widgets for archive pages of a specific post type. For example, <code>[archive:product]</code> can be used to show widgets for the WooCommerce shop page and product archives only.</li>
<li>Allows to specify exclusions. For example, to show a widget only on pages, but exclude it from being shown on one or more specific pages.</li>
<li>Provides additional sidebar features that allow to define any number of custom sidebars, flexible placement based on common locations, including above and below content, the comment form, menus and other sidebars, the <code>[widgets_control_sidebar]</code> shortcode to embed them in content on your pages and API functions to use them in your theme’s templates.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
Feedback is welcome!
If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/widgets-control/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control</a> plugin page.
Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with quality plugins!
Please help with your feedback and we’re also grateful if you help spread the word about this plugin.
Thanks!
<h4>Twitter</h4>
Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">@itthinx</a> on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins.

Widgets Control

A Widget toolbox that adds visibility management and helps to control where widgets, sidebars and content are shown efficiently.

Phill Brown

<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/context-manager/" rel="ugc">This plugin has been replaced by Context Manager</a>
Context Manager does the same job as Menu Rules, but comes with many more features to save you time and unnecessary coding.
Menu Rules can run alongside Context Manager while you migrate your rules across. <a href="http://twitter.com/phill_brown" rel="nofollow ugc">Speak to me on Twitter</a> if you need any help with the transfer.
<h4>About Menu Rules</h4>
In WordPress there’s no way to apply context to the menu system. Menu Rules solves this problem and gives you a framework to write your own menu extensions.
<h4>Example usage</h4>
You have an e-commerce website that has a custom post type called ‘products’. You have a page that lists products which is listed in your main menu. A user visits the page and the menu item becomes ‘active’. You click through to a product and the menu item loses its active state. This is how to fix it with menu rules:
<ol>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/menu-rules/installation/" rel="ugc">Install</a> the Menu Rules plugin</li>
<li>Add a menu rule</li>
<li>Give it a meaningful name in the title field. This is just for administration purposes</li>
<li>In the conditions field enter <code>is_singular( 'product' )</code></li>
<li>Choose Emulate current page as a child but do not create a menu item. as the menu rule</li>
<li>Find your products page in the menu dropdown</li>
<li>Hit publish</li>
</ol>
<h4>Extending Menu Rules</h4>
<ol>
<li>Create a class that extends <code>Menu_Rules_Handler</code> and includes a <code>handler</code> method.</li>
<li>Write your custom functionality</li>
<li>Register your class using <code>add_action( 'plugins_loaded', create_function( '', 'Menu_Rules::register( "Your_Menu_Rule_Class" );' ) );</code></li>
</ol>
Built-in rules are found in <code>menu-rules/rules/</code>
<h4>Support</h4>
If you’re stuck, ask me for help on <a href="http://twitter.com/phill_brown" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>.

Menu Rules

An extension of the menu system with context-based rules and a flexible framework to write your own.

Widgets Control vs Menu Rules