Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Widget Area Manager

Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Widget Area Manager

Flexible sidebars for custom widget configurations on every page, post and custom post type on your site.

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Plugin Popularity 5.0
Author Activity 2.5
  • 👷🏻 This plugin is actively maintained and contributors are really committed to it!
  • 🎖 You've hit a jackpot! This is one of the Top 10 plugins!!
  • ❤️ Mindblowing! More than 2,199,400 people use plugins from this team.
  • 🏂 30% of 200,000+ users are on the latest version.
  • 📥 Seems like a popular plugin - 912 people download this plugin everyday.
  • 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 Good sign.. There is a team behind this plugin.
  • 📢 Aweful or Awesome?? 25 total updates and 25 in just last 12 months. That's a lot!
  • 🎂 This plugin celebrated it's 11th anniversary 3 months ago.

Key Numbers

  • 200,000+ Active Installs
  • 4.7 Avg. Users Rating
  • 1,011 Total Ratings
  • 3,747,356 Total Downloads
  • 2010-08-23 Added
  • 25 Releases in 12 Months
  • 2019-05-10 Last Update
  • 3.2.3 Current Version

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5Advanced Custom Fields: Archive Templates0500+5
6Import & Export WordPress Data to CSV0
7Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Widget Area Manager0200,000+4.7

Description

** Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager. **

Make custom sidebar configurations and be able to choose what widgets display on each page or post of your site.

Display Different Sidebars on Pages and Posts

Custom Sidebars allows you to dynamically display custom widget configurations on any page, post, category, post type, or archive page.

Custom Sidebars allows you to display custom widget configurations on any page, post, category, post type, or archive page.

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Every part of Custom Sidebars integrates seamlessly with the Widgets menu for simplicity and control. No confusing settings pages or added menu items, just simple core integration.

Custom Sidebars Is Fully-Loaded

If you run a design agency, or just want to get rid of the ads, checkout Custom Sidebars Pro:

Get Custom Sidebars Pro for targeted marketing, better widgets for each level of your membership site, or just to clean up bloated content on each page. Download and try it for free!

Contact and Credits

Custom sidebars is maintained and developed by WPMU DEV.

Original development completed by Javier Marquez.

Custom Sidebars uses the great jQuery plugin Tiny Scrollbar by Maarten Baijs.

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Contributors

iworks
marquex
WPMUDEV
WPMUDEV-Support1
WPMUDEV-Support2
WPMUDEV-Support4
WPMUDEV-Support6

Reviews

5 Stars 893
4 Stars 51
3 Stars 10
2 Stars 13
1 Star 44
Not reliable Anymore
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The premium version used to work flawlessly but not anymore as they discontinued it and the free one has not been updated for the past 8 months. I was using it with Genesis framework but recently all the widget items from the custom sidebars go missing so I have to reimport them again from the backup. it happens randomly with no error log.
Nicely done, but too limited
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Compared to other plugins the filters are too limited. E.g. one can't define a sidebar which is displayed on pages, but not on the homepage. EDIT: Changed from 3 star to 2 star rating because the support replied with an irrelevant answer.
Just what I needed!
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Many thanks for that very useful plugin!
Great Plugin
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Very useful plugin!
super
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I need to install it twice to understand, that the module is about and how to operate it. but finally I have to say, perfect.
Can't add sidebar to woocommerce pages
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We installed this thinking we could add a custom sidebar to our woocommerce category pages. This cannot be done with this plugin. This is a very basic plugin and does not even come close to what we need.
Very helpful plugin
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This is very helpful plugin which save lots of time. Thank you!
Being forced to use this plugin
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Because the main dynamic sidebar plugin does not work with a theme I am using. The logic that a "clone" is a "child"! -- Don't use this plugin unless you want to kill HOURS of unbillable time.
Thank your for such a great plugin!
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This is really one of the best sidebar tool! Thank you very much for your great plugin!
Doesn't work for me
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Not user friendly for the amateur WordPresser, I can't get any sidebars to work on only certain pages and other sidebars on another page. Spending too much time using it and getting nowhere.

Keywords

  • custom
  • custom sidebars
  • flexible layout
  • footer
  • personalize
  • sidebar
  • sidebars
  • widget
  • widgets

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