Justin Tadlock

<p>The default WordPress widgets don’t offer much control over how they are output on the screen.  Widgets Reloaded seeks to correct this problem.</p>
<p>This plugin provides alternatives to many of the default widgets with versions that allow much more control.  Widgets come with numerous options to output widget content just like you want.</p>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<p>The plugin creates the following widgets:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reloaded – Archives</li>
<li>Reloaded – Authors</li>
<li>Reloaded – Bookmarks <em>(if link manager is enabled)</em></li>
<li>Reloaded – Calendar</li>
<li>Reloaded – Categories</li>
<li>Reloaded – Menu</li>
<li>Reloaded – Pages</li>
<li>Reloaded – Posts</li>
<li>Reloaded – Tags</li>
</ul>
<h3>Professional Support</h3>
<p>If you need professional plugin support from me, the plugin author, you can join the club at <a href="https://themehybrid.com/club" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hybrid</a>, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where I handle support for all my plugins and themes for a community of 75,000+ users (and growing).</p>
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/widgets-reloaded" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Yes, I do accept donations.  If you want to donate, you can do so from my <a href="https://themehybrid.com/donate" rel="nofollow ugc">donations page</a> or grab me something from my <a href="http://a.co/flUb0ns" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon Wish List</a>.</p>
<p>I appreciate all donations, no matter the size.  Further development of this plugin is not contingent on donations, but they are always a nice incentive.</p>


Widgets Reloaded

More advanced versions of the default WordPress widgets that come with highly customizable control panels.

FuzzGuard

<p>This plugin allows you to display widget items based on if a user is logged in, logged out or based on the role you have given the user.</p>
<p>This plugin allows fine-grained permissions to be added to each individual widget item to display or not display the item based on the<br />
 users logged in/logged out status or the role assigned to the user.  This solves the problem of having to modify theme functions.php files to add in widget restrictions.  The changes in functions.php is often overwritten by a theme update.  This plugin removes that worry, as you can update the theme, independent of the plugin.</p>


Privilege Widget

This plugin allows you to display widget items based on if a user is logged in, logged out or based on the role you have given the user.

Widgets Reloaded vs Privilege Widget