Possible to set the custom sidebar based on GET variable in url?

  • Resolved capsid

    (@capsid)


    8 years ago

    This plugin is making it so much easier to do sidebar A/B testing on a single original page, but I’m having trouble using it for experiments with multiple original pages.

    Would it be possible to modify Content Aware Sidebars so it can use a url variable as the condition?

    Like there could be an option in the post type dropdown called URL Variable and then you could enter any matching key/value pair like abtest=var1

    For now I know I have to do it manually. Do you have any suggestion on how I can swap out the sidebar in code in a way that won’t conflict with Content Aware Sidebars? Like which filter to use and anything special I should consider?

    Thanks very much for your thoughts 🙂

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/

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  • Plugin Author Joachim Jensen

    (@intoxstudio)

    8 years ago

    Using the plugin for A/B testing is a very interesting use case.

    Content Aware Sidebars does have filters you can hook into, and all conditions have their own module which makes it very flexible. There are no official docs for how to create, extend or swap modules, but you can take a look at how the existing modules are built here:
    https://github.com/intoxstudio/wp-content-aware-engine/tree/master/module

    A URL module, with support for wildcards, will be part of the premium version of the plugin and will be released soon.

    Thread Starter capsid

    (@capsid)

    8 years ago

    Excellent, I’ll gladly pay for that feature!

    Plugin Author Joachim Jensen

    (@intoxstudio)

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Just letting you know that the PRO version is out with this feature, and when you update to version 3.2, you can upgrade right from the dashboard.

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