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Custom sidebars

Allows to create your own widgetized areas and custom sidebars, and select what sidebars to use for each post or page.

1.1

  • Fixed: Where lightbox not showing for everybody (Thanks to Robert Utnehmer)
  • Added: Default sidebar for search results pages
  • Added: Default sidebar for date archives
  • Added: Default sidebar for Uncategorized posts

1.0

  • Fixed: Special characters make sidebars undeletable
  • Added: Child/parent pages support
  • Improved interface to handle hundreds of sidebars easily
  • Added: Ajax support for creating an editing sidebars from the widget page
  • Added: Italian translation

0.8.2

  • Fixed: Problems with spanish translation
  • Added: Dutch and German language files
  • Fixed: Some css issues with WP3.3

0.8.1

  • Fixed: You can assign sidebars to your pages again.

0.8

  • Fixed: Category hierarchy is now handled properly by the custom sidebars plugin.
  • Added: Sidebars can be set for every custom post type post individually.
  • Improved the way it replace the sidebars.
  • Improved some text and messages in the back-end.

0.7.1

  • Fixed: Now the plugin works with themes like Thesis that don't use the the_header hook. Changed the hook where execute the replacement code to wp_head.
  • Fixed: When a second sidebar is replaced with the originally first sidebar, it is replaced by the first sidebar replacement instead.

0.7

  • Fixed: Bulk and Quick editing posts and pages reset their custom sidebars.
  • Changed capability needed to switch_themes, and improved capability management.

0.6

  • New interface, more user friendly
  • Added the possibility of customize the main blog page sidebars
  • Added the sidebars by category, so now you can personalize all the post that belongs to a category easily in a hierarchycal way
  • Added the possibility of customize the authors page sidebars
  • Added the possibility of customize the tags page sidebars
  • Added, now it is possible to edit the sidebars names, as well as the pre-widget, post-widget, pre-title, post-title for a sidebar.
  • Added the possibility of customize the sidebars of posts list by category or post-type.

0.5

  • Fixed a bug that didn't allow to create new bars when every previous bars were deleted.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in v0.4 that did not allow to assign bars per post-types properly
  • Added an option to remove all the Custom Sidebars data from the database easily.

0.4

  • Empty sidebars will now be shown as empty, instead of displaying the theme's default sidebar.

0.3

  • PHP 4 Compatible (Thanks to Kay Larmer)
  • Fixed a bug introduced in v0.2 that did not allow to save the replaceable bars options

0.2

  • Improved security by adding wp_nonces to the forms.
  • Added the pt-widget post type to the ignored post types.
  • Improved i18n files.
  • Fixed screenshots for documentation.

0.1

  • Initial release

Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4 beta 4
Last Updated: 2012-5-22
Downloads: 88,681

Average Rating

4 stars
(56 ratings)

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