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WP Custom Sidebars

Description

If you are looking for a plugin that help you to create unlimited sidebars for pages/posts/taxonomies… without coding skills, WP Custom Sidebars is what you’re looking for!.

Easily overriding sidebar positions on your site, no integration needed. Works with any WordPress theme.

Features:

  • Override any sidebars on your site.
  • Support Post types, Category, Tags or Custom Taxonomies.
  • Adding as many sidebars as you want.
  • Transferable/Importable sidebar data.
  • Translation ready with mo/po files.

Note that if you are using other custom sidebar plugins, you should disable them so WP Custom Sidebars won’t be confused on overriding sidebars 😀

How to use WP Custom Sidebars?

  • Step 1: Select post types you want to support custom sidebars in Appearance -> Sidebars -> General Settings tab.
  • Step 2: Create as many sidebars as you want. Then go to Appearance -> Widgets and add widgets to your sidebar you’ve just created.
  • Step 3: Go edit page/post or category/tag/custom taxonomies, then look for WP Custom Sidebars setting box, and overriding sidebars.

That’s it!

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Screenshots

  • Adding custom sidebars
  • Plugin Settings
  • Overriding sidebars

FAQ-e

Does this plugin support custom post type?

Yes, it does. Please go to Appearance -> Sidebars -> Settings and choose post types you wish to support.

Does this plugin support archive pages such as categories or tags?

Currently it doesn’t but we will work on it in future.

Reviews

28 August 2020
No ratings, havent been updated in years, yet it works perfectly to add sidebars into Hello theme for elementor 3.0 !
16 December 2018 1 reply
Lightweight, super easy to implement and use. A true time saver. Many thanks to the developer!
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Custom Sidebars” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

v1.0.2

  • Now Supported Importing sidebars from old sidebar generator
  • Updated Translation files
  • Bugfixes and improvements

1.0.1

  • Now Supported overidding sidebars for Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies
  • Updated Translation files
  • other improvements
  • Fixed Minor bug

1.0

  • Initial Release