Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager vs WP LIST PAGES BY CUSTOM TAXONOMY

Manage and replace sidebars and other classic widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager. Make custom sidebar configurations and be able to choose what classic widgets display on each page or post of your site. Need to make a widget sticky or fixed? Try our free WP Sticky Anything plugin. Custom Sidebars works ONLY with the classic widgets screen that was used in WordPress before version 5.8. If you want to use it with version 5.8 (and above) you have to install the official Classic Widgets plugin, or enable the classic widgets interface yourself. Once the classic widgets screen is activated the plugin will work the same as before. Having problems setting up SSL or generating an SSL certificate? Install the free WP Force SSL plugin. 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 will go on my “essential plugins” list from now on. I am pleased by how easy it was to figure out and by how many options are available in the free version.” – monkeyhateclean ★★★★★ “This plugin does exactly what it says. It’s light, integrates well into WordPress and gives you tons of possibilities.” – DarkNova 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. A Simple Flexible Sidebar Manager ** Custom Sidebars Includes: ** * Unlimited custom widget configurations * Set custom widgets for individual posts and pages, categories, post types, and archives * Seamless integration with the WordPress Widgets menu * Works with well-coded themes and doesn’t slow down your site * Set individual widget visibility – for guests, by user role, by post type, for special pages or categories * Author specific sidebars – display a custom sidebar for each of your authors * Clone and sync widget settings – quickly edit complex configurations * Import and export custom sidebars – backup and share sidebars Install Custom Sidebars and see for yourself why it’s the most popular widget extension plugin available for WordPress with over 200,000 active installs. Contact and Credits Original development completed by Javier Marquez.

This plugin will provide a new widget in the Widgets Section, so you can easily add it in any widgetized area of your theme. With this widget you will be able to list pages or posts or any other post-type, filtering them by terms of categories, tags and any other active custom taxonomy. You can add filtering by Custom Meta Field value, and decide how to order the list. You can also choose to display only Title, or to add Thumbnails, Excerpts and Date. Or you could display only the image with the details on rollover! Its scope is very similar to the default Recent Posts widget, but you’ll have tons of options and you can use it for any post-type and taxonomy. Now you can also set the max width of the thumbnail, and the excerpt length, so the listing can display nicely even on larger widgetized areas. “This is the last listing widget plugin you’ll ever need to download” the main features of the widget are: Decide how many entries to display Choose which Post-Type you want to list Choose which Taxonomy will be used as filter Choose which Terms to narrow your list with (or choose “any” term of the selected taxonomy) Select multiple terms at once Include or exclude children terms of the selected ones Filter by Custom Meta Fields values (full list of comparison operators) Automatically lists in dropdown selectors, all available post-types, taxonomies, terms, and meta fields! no need to find their slugs or ids! Order by ID, Date, Last Modified Date, Title, Comments, Page Order, Meta Field, or Random Order Ascendant or Descendant Choose if display Thumbnails, and if link them to the post url Choose which Thumbnail Size to pull from the database Set Thumbnail max width Choose the thumb alignment (left, right or centered above) Choose if display Excerpts Set Excerpt length (in characters) Choose if to display Date (or “Last Modified” Date) and which alignment Decide if text content can flow below the image or rather stay on its side Eventually force the titles to stay on one line and hide the overflowing Truncate the title after a specific amount of characters Exclude specific posts/pages from the listing Exclude current post image placeholder if no-thumb is found Choose to display results into a simple dropdown Choose to display only image If only-image, choose to display post data on mouse hover Act as SubPages Nav Menu! (Display only the Children of the same current Parent) Display the current Parent/Page as Widget Title Add text or html above the list Several filter hooks available for manipulating the plugin logic (for developers) Also, the plugin is structured to allow easy overriding of the output template. Just duplicate the file pbytax-template.php that you’ll find within the plugin subfolder “templates”, and put it in your theme folder. You can also take advantage of a few useful filter hooks (see FAQ)! the widget is built with a very little css styling, in order to adapt perfectly in any theme. though, if you want to style it up, all the html elements have been named with specific classes, to allow easy targetting in your css file. if you’d like me to add a new feature to the widget, please let me know by writing a post in the support forum , and hopefully I will add it to the next version of WP List Pages by Custom Taxonomy. If this plugin has been helpful for you, please don’t forget to review it and consider to make a donation. Don’t be shy, a couple of dollars would still make me happy! 🙂