If Widget – Visibility control for Widgets

January 18, 2021

If Widget – Visibility control for Widgets Plugin

Control what widgets your site’s visitors see, with custom visibility rules

With If Widget you can control on which pages widgets are shown. Show or hide widgets with custom visibility rules (no PHP or technical knowledge required).

The plugin is easy to use, each widget will have a new option “Show widget only if” which will enable the selection of visibility rules (example in Screenshots). Visibility rules can be combined with AND/OR to create even more personalised visibility options.

Examples

Display a widget only if User is logged in
Hide widgets if Is mobile deviceORVisitor is from US
Display widgets only for Admins and Editors
Hide Login or Register widgets for Logged in Users
Show widget only for AdminsANDIs not mobile device

Visibility Rules

These are the visibility rules you can add for widgets:

User state: User is logged in
User role: User is Admin or Editor (plus all the available roles)
User registration: User registration is allowed
Post type: Current post type is Post or Product
Page type: Current page is Front Page or Blog Page
URL: Current URL starts/ends with "this-page"
URL: Current URL contains with "keyword"
Device detection: Is mobile device
Visitor location: Visitor is from US or Spain ✱
Visitor language: Visitor language is English or Spanish ✱
Third-party plugin integrations: Show if user is in Group "Group Name", Show if user has Subscription "Example Subscription" and more ✱

More Visibility Rules Add-on

The paid Add-on provides more visibility rules and priority support.
Visibility Rules: unlock all visibility rules like: visitor location, membership status, user groups and more. A few examples are marked with ✱ above.
Support: get one-on-one email support for any questions you may have about installing and configuring our plugins.
Get More Visibility Rules.

Screenshots

If Widget plugin demo
Enable and choose visibility rules for Widgets
Visibility rules
Mix multiple visibility rules

FAQ

How can I enable custom visiblity for a widget?

On Widgets editing page, each widget will have a section for controlling visibility. Enable the option “Show widget only if” to reveal and configure visibility rules (Example in screenshots).

How can I add a custom visibility rule for menu items?

New rules can be added by code in any other plugin or theme.

Example of adding a new custom rule for displaying/hiding a widget when current page is a custom-post-type.

// theme's functions.php or plugin file add_filter('if_visibility_rules', 'my_new_visibility_rule'); function my_new_visibility_rule(array $rules) { $rules['single-my-custom-post-type'] = array( 'name' => __('Single my-CPT', 'i18n-domain'), // name of the condition 'callback' => function() { // callback - must return Boolean return is_singular('my-custom-post-type'); } ); return $rules; }

Where can I find conditional functions?

WordPress provides a lot of functions which can be used to create custom rules for almost any combination that a theme/plugin developer can think of.

Changelog

0.5 – 7 March 2020

Added – Visibility rule – Is Archive page (checks for year/month/category archive page)
Updated – Ensure compatibility with WordPress 5.4
Fixed – Vsibility rules control in Customizer

0.4 – 24 October 2019

Updated – Text Visibility rule option: Text doesn’t contain
Updated – Ensure compatibility with WordPress 5.3

0.3 – 5 July 2019

Added – Visibility rule – Users can register
Added – Support for paid Addon, which adds more visibility rules

0.2 – 2 March 2019

Updated – Plugin texts
Updated – Compatibility with WordPress 5.1

0.1

Plugin release. Includes basic visibility rules