Dynamic Widget Content
Dynamic widget content for single pages and posts. Manually set your widget content while editing the post.
Maintenance 40/100261d since update
Active installs
400
Downloads
13,826
Reviews
8
Age
10.8y
Tagswidgetsdynamic content
Plugin info
Total downloads: 13,826
Active installs: 400
Total reviews: 8
Average rating: 4.9
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 4/14/2025 (261 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 3/23/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.5
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Stale • Last updated 261 days ago • 8 reviews
40/100
Is Dynamic Widget Content abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 261 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.5
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f
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Description
The widget will only show if you have set some content for it on the current page. Perfect for creating dynamic widgets that only appear when you need it. Works with any custom post type as well and you can use shortcodes in the widget content!
Usage examples:
- Post summaries
- Positive and negative points for reviews
- Index with links for long pages
- Call to action links
- …
Let us know what you think! Any feedback is welcome.
Installation
- Upload the
dynamic-widget-contentdirectory (directory included) to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Add the ‘Dynamic Widget Content’ widget
- Add content in the ‘Dynamic Widget Content’ meta box for posts or pages
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Changelog
1.3.6
- Fix: PHP 8.2 deprecations
1.3.5
- Fix: PHP 8 deprecation warnings
- Fix: Gutenberg deprecations
1.3.4
- Fix: Settings page WordPress 5.5 compatibility
1.3.3
- Fix: Gutenberg 3.9 compatibility
1.3.2
- Fix: Gutenberg 3.3 compatibility
1.3.1
- Fix: Gutenberg 2.7 compatibility
1.3.0
- Feature: Gutenberg compatible, including new blocks
- Improvement: Update VafPress library
- Fix: Prevent PHP 7 deprecated warning
1.2.2
- Fix: PHP 7 compatibility
1.2.1
- Bootstrapped Venture Giveaway
1.2
- Feature: Enable up to 3 dynamic widgets in the settings. Useful for multiple sidebars, for example.
1.1
- Feature: Ability to set a default title and content (leave blank to hide)
0.0.2
- Added a basic settings page
- New ‘dwc_widget_output’ plugin hook to alter the output with code
0.0.1
- Very first version of this plugin



