Description

Widget Context will show or hide widgets on certain sections of your site — front page, posts, pages, archives, search, etc. It also features section targeting by URLs (with wildcard support) for maximum flexibility.

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Documentation

Target by URL

The “Target by URL” is a very powerful feature with a lot of flexibility for targeting sections of your website based on the request URLs. It was inspired by a similar feature in the Drupal CMS.

Use relative URLs such as page/sub-page instead of absolute URLs https://example.com/page/sub-page.
Relative are URLs more flexible and make the logic portable between different domains and server environments.

Wildcards

Use the wildcard symbol * for matching dynamic parts of the URL. For example:

topic/widgets/* to match all posts in the widgets category, if your permalink structure is set to /topic/%category%/%postname%.
page-slug/* to match all child pages of the page-slug parent page.
Use a trailing ?* to capture URL with all query arguments such as utm_source, etc. For example, for every blog/post-slug also include blog/post-slug?*.

Screenshots

Widget Context settings at the bottom of every widget
Widget Context plugin settings

Installation

Search for Widget Context under “Plugins → Add New” in your WordPress dashboard.
Widget Context settings will appear automatically under each widget under “Appearance → Widgets”.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

Search for Widget Context under “Plugins → Add New” in your WordPress dashboard.
Widget Context settings will appear automatically under each widget under “Appearance → Widgets”.

Reviews

Excellent

tcartr07

Just what I wanted to hide widgets on certain locations, works perfectly thanks to the dev.

Doesn’t show up

philipharding in GZ

No menus, nada.

The Best

Eylank

Thanks you! 😉

very easy to use

Frank Leusing

This plugin is powerful and very easy to use.

Very handy plugin

dixiereid

Can't fault the plugin. Very happy.

Great work 🙂

logicdigger

great work i have customized for show for selected pages it was issue to manage . well managed codes . thank you for great efforts

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Contributors & Developers

“Widget Context” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

“Widget Context” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Widget Context” into your language.

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Changelog

1.1.0 (June 13, 2018)

Fix URL matching for URLs with query strings.
Introduce unit tests for the URL context.

1.0.7 (June 5, 2018)

Mark as tested with WordPress 4.9.6.
Use the localisation service provided by WP.org.
Support for Composer.

1.0.6 (January 20, 2018)

Fix path to admin scripts and styles, props @tedgeving.
Mark as tested with WordPress 4.9.2.

1.0.5 (May 8, 2017)

Confirm the plugin works with the latest version of WordPress.
Add support for continuous testing via wp-dev-lib.

1.0.4 (May 6, 2016)

Confirm the plugin works with the latest version of WordPress.
Fix the PHP class constructor warning.
Move the widget context settings link.
Fix the initial context state in the customizer.

1.0.3

Include Russian translation (Thanks Flector!).
Add textdomain to the remaining strings.
Enable debugging if Debug Bar is available.

1.0.2

Load available custom post types and taxonomies right before visibility checks to avoid PHP warnings.
Run visibility checks only after the main post query has run. Fixes issues with WooCommerce.
Load our CSS and Javascript files only on widget and customizer admin pages.

1.0.1

Fix PHP warning in custom post type and taxonomy module.

1.0

Public release of the 1.0 refactoring.

1.0-beta

Improved settings page.

1.0-alpha

Refactor code to allow custom widget context modules.

0.8.3

Fix PHP warning that occurred on PHP 5.2.x.

0.8.2

Improved SSL/HTTPS detection.
Fix: Ensure that is_active_sidebar() & is_dynamic_sidebar() don’t return true when there are no widgets displayed on a page.
Two new filters so that other plugins can override widget context display/visibility logic.

0.8.1

Revert back to changing callback function in $wp_registered_widgets for attaching widget context setting controls.
Fix the word count logic.

0.8

Major code rewrite and refactoring to improve performance and usability.
Fix bugs with URL targeting and empty lines in the “Target by URL” textarea.

0.7.2

Fix PHP warnings/notices. Props to James Collins.

0.7.1

Confirm that the plugin works with the latest version of WP.

0.7

Bug fix: check for active sidebars only after $paged has been set.

0.6

Don’t check for used sidebars on each widget load. Allow absolute URLs in the URL check.

0.5

Added distinction between is_front_page() and is_home(). Remove widgets from wp_get_sidebars_widgets() if they are not being displayed — this way you can check if a particular sidebar is empty.

0.4.5

Widget output callback couldn’t determine the widget_id.

0.4.4

Fixed widget control parameter transfer for widgets that don’t use the new widget api.

0.4.2

Initial release on Plugin repository.

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