Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin vs Ultimate Post List

Content Aware Sidebars is the #1 WordPress Sidebar Plugin You can optimize conversion rates, boost on-site SEO, upsell products, and much more by displaying different widget areas on different conditions. Create tailored widget areas in seconds. No widget logic coding required. Show or Hide Widgets on Any Page (Yes, any) Replace your theme sidebars on different conditions, or insert widget areas with shortcodes. The following Display Conditions are available out of the box: Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types Content with Tags, Categories, or Custom Taxonomies Content written by select Authors Page Templates Blog Page & Post Type Archives Author Archives Taxonomy Archives Front Page, Search Results, 404 Not Found Page bbPress Profiles, Forums & Topics BuddyPress Profile Sections Languages (Polylang, qTranslate X, TranslatePress, Transposh, Weglot, WPML) Pods Pages You can even combine conditions in any way you like! E.g. target all posts in a select category and written by a specific author. Add Unlimited Sidebars & Widget Areas Create a post sidebar, a page sidebar, a category sidebar, or any custom sidebar you need – no coding required. CAS will never slow down your site, even if you create a lot of custom sidebars and conditions. Sidebars – Quick Select© lets you add or select widget areas directly when editing a post or page. Schedule & Disable Custom Sidebars In the All-in-one Sidebar Manager you just pick a start and end date for when widget areas should be displayed, and CAS will take care of the rest. 1-Click Sidebar Activation© lets you activate or deactivate widget areas instantly. The Most User-friendly Widget Manager When adding new widgets to sidebars, Live Search will find widgets instantly, and the smart split-screen makes it a joy to manage a lot of widgets and sidebars. The Enhanced Widget Manager adds the signature turquoise line to easily identify custom sidebars. Sidebar Plugin Integrations & Support CAS autodetects Custom Post Types and Taxonomies created by any plugin or theme. Built-in support for some of the most popular WordPress plugins means that you e.g. can create WooCommerce sidebars for select products or BuddyPress sidebars for your members. bbPress BuddyPress / BuddyBoss Easy Digital Downloads qTranslate X Pods Polylang TranslatePress Transposh Translation Filter WooCommerce Weglot WPML Customize Your Widget Areas Your Way Without writing any code, you can modify the HTML and CSS classes of widget areas, widgets, and widget titles. You get full control over the look and feel of your sidebars and widget areas, no matter what theme you use. Sidebar Visibility lets you elegantly hide any widget area for logged-out users. Complete control over your WordPress widget areas Upgrade to Content Aware Sidebars Pro and get these additional powerful features: Totem – Smart Floating Button Like the button you may have seen by Intercom or Helpscout, only this is for all your widgets Sticky Sidebars & Widget Areas Make any sidebar or widget area sticky without hurting site performance. No jQuery and no bloat Widget Areas after Paragraphs Display a widget area after a specific number or percentage of paragraphs in your content Even More Display Conditions Advanced Custom Fields data Meta Box data URLs + wildcards Referrer URLs Date Archives & Content by publish date BuddyPress Groups Random Widget Area Designer Add responsive widget columns and edit colors, backgrounds, paddings, etc. Widget Areas in Theme Hooks Intelligently infuse new widget areas into your theme without coding Automatic Widgets Backup Easily restore any changed or deleted widgets Widget Cleaner Save memory and remove clutter by disabling and removing unused widgets Extended User Visibility Show or hide widget areas for User Roles, BuddyPress Groups, and more Time & Weekday Schedule Display widget areas only in select time ranges on given days Container Widget Turn widget areas into reusable blocks and show the same widgets in different places Duplicate Widget Areas A real time-saver when adding new similar widget areas and so much more… Upgrade at anytime instantly and securely from your website’s Admin Dashboard. More Information Documentation GitHub Twitter

Make up custom-tailored preview lists of your website’s contents easily and place them in widget areas and post contents. Promote your website’s content with many kinds of post lists. No programming skills are necessary. No fiddling with templates. With just a few keyboard entries and clicks you get a customized posts list. The plugin Ultimate Post List for WordPress gives you an easy-to-use toolbox to make lists of posts. You can insert the lists as widgets in every widget area per drag’n’drop easily via configurable shortcodes in every post content via calls of the function upl_get_html() in PHP code You can switch between a vertical list layout or a responsive grid layout. A few options help you to get a nice layout without any need to code. You can filter the posts by their post type “Post” or/and “Page” and by multiple categories. For filtering by custom post types check out Ultimate Post List Pro. You can switch on a “Load more posts” link or button which loads further posts without leaving the page. Its text is controlled easily for you. The plugin is multi-widget capable. That is, you can have several widgets of Ultimate Post List on your blog, each with its own settings! You can clone (duplicate, copy) every list with a single click on the action link. The plugin does not collect any personal data, so it is ready for EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. Demo You want to test Ultimate Post List before installing on your site? Try it out on your individual and free WordPress playground and click here. Options you can set The free version of Ultimate Post List offers you many options to type and click customized post lists easily. These are the options: List Options List Display Options List Visibility Text if no posts List Title Options List title URL of list title HTML element of list title Post List Options Post List Options In General Number of posts Posts offset Hide current viewed post in list Show sticky posts on top of the list Posts Sort Order Order by Post date Post title Post author Order direction Ascending Descending Post Filter Options Post Type Filter Show posts of selected types: posts or/and pages Category Filter Show posts of selected categories only Show only posts that are in all selected categories Post List Item Options Post Data Order Position of post thumbnail Position of post title Position of post date Position of post author name Position of post excerpt Post Display Options Show post thumbnail (default) Show post title (default) Show post date Show post author name Show post excerpt Post Links Options Set post title clickable (default) Set post thumbnail clickable (default) Set post date clickable, pointing to the month archive Set post author clickable, pointing to the author’s archive Set post excerpt clickable Open post links in new windows Post Title Options Maximum length of post title Text after shortened title Post Date Options Format of the post date (over 100 options available) Post Thumbnail Options Source of the post thumbnail Featured image First post content image if previously uploaded to the media library Featured image if the first post content image is not available First post content image if the featured image is not available Avatars of post authors Use post title as the alternative text for the thumbnail Use default thumbnail if no image could be ascertained URL of default thumbnail Thumbnail size Width of thumbnail in px Height of thumbnail in px Use aspect ratios of original images Alignment of thumbnail Align left Align center Align right Top image margin width in px Bottom image margin width in px Left image margin width in px Right image margin width in px Flow of text at the thumbnail (wrap right/left or side by side) Post Excerpt Options Maximum length of post excerpt Text after shortened excerpt Ignore post excerpt field as excerpt source Ignore post content as excerpt source “More” Element Options “More” Element Appearance Show a clickable “More” element for loading further list items at the bottom of the list “More” element type Show element as a link Show element as a button Label of “More” element Show icon while new posts are loaded Icon style Small icons Small gray circle with rotating dot Small turning wheel Big icons Big gray circle with rotating dot Big turning wheel Text that appears when no further posts have been found List Layout Options List Layout Type: vertical list or responsive grid Grid item width in px Minimal height of grid item in px List Item Margin Options Top item margin in px Bottom item margin in px Left item margin in px Right item margin in px Additional options in the Pro version The Pro version has all the options of the free version and many additional options for layouts, numbered lists, colors, custom post types and much more. Go to Ultimate Post List Pro. Pro users get premium support whilst free support is offered in the WordPress forums in our spare time. Support Support for this plugin will be provided in the form of Product Support. This means that we intend to fix any confirmed bugs, listen to ideas for this plugin and improve the user experience when enhancements are identified and can reasonably be accommodated. Pro users get premium support whilst free support is offered in the WordPress forums in our spare time. If you are having trouble with this plugin in your particular installation of WordPress, we will not be able to help you troubleshoot the problem.