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Justin Sternberg

Gary Jones

shaunandrews

Plugin project for refreshing WordPress core’s widget interface. 
https://make.wordpress.org/ui/tag/widgets/

WordPress Widgets Refresh

Plugin project for refreshing WordPress core's widget interface. http://make.wordpress.org/ui/tag/widgets/

If you have ever needed to accommodate a client’s request to have separate widget areas for many sections of the site, you understand the need for this plugin.
This plugin alleviates the pain of having many sidebar widget areas by hiding all but one (that is selectable via a dropdown). Gone are the days of trying to drag a new widget from the left column to a widget area at the bottom of the right column (ugh!).
There is no configuration for this plugin.
Contribute on <a href="https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>.

Sane Widget Sidebar Management

Manage one widget area at a time to maintain widget sanity.

WordPress Widgets Refresh vs Sane Widget Sidebar Management