With this plugin you can handle sidebar contents like posts and assign them from a dropdown menu.
With this plugin you can edit sidebar contents like posts in the admin area and assign them from a dropdown menu to any post or page. It supports flexible dropping via widget for independent theme association.
It’s a matter of fact that people don’t want to code when they just want to change their contents. To keep a website interesting for visitors you can change the sidebar contents in context to the main content. Before you could realize it with different sidebar templates or conditional tags.
Now you can do all these great things inside the admin area without any coding.
Any anyway: Since we organize informations in databases all contents should be stored there as well.
From a dropdown menu you can easily choose all sidebars you have created.
meta box
on post/page edit pagespost type
for sidebarsNote:
First drop the widget in the sidebar of your choice. Now uses oldest sidebar as default sidebar. Before installing or upgrading new plugins, please backup your database first! After upgrading to ‘WordPress Custom Sidebar 2.0’ you have to assign the widget again.
There are several ways to install a plugin in WordPress. For newbies this way is highly recommended:
wordpress-custom-sidebar.zip
from ‘Install Plugins’Make sure that your theme is supporting widgets. Then add the ‘Custom Sidebar’ widget in any registered sidebar of your theme. This options are available under ‘Widgets’ in ‘Appearance’ menu. For more information look at Widgetizing Themes – WordPress Codex
For more information please follow WordPress Codex – Installing Plugins.
No, the only thing is to add a widget to the sidebar of your choice.
Create some more ‘Custom Sidebars’ and load one after another.
Yes, the plugin is isolated in an own PHP class.
Some themes have different sidebar templates for posts/pages.
meta box
with dropdown menu for sidebar assignmentregister_sidebar_widget
replaced with wp_register_sidebar_widget
post type
post type
for sidebarsconditional tags