Multiple Themes vs Widgets Control

Settings provide many different ways to Select which Theme should appear where on your WordPress web site: Just for Site Home By URL (Version 5 adds support for Query keyword=value as part of a unique URL); By Prefix URL, matching all URLs that begin with the same characters (“Prefix URL”); By Wildcard Prefix URL with one or more Asterisks (“*”) representing arbritrary subdirectories in the URL; By Query Keyword found in any URL, not matter what the Value; By Query keyword=value found in any URL; By Sticky Query keyword=value that sets the Theme for a given Visitor until an Override Query keyword=value is found in a future URL (Advanced Setting requiring the Visitor’s browser to accept Cookies; incompatible with certain plugins that block Cookies); Everywhere (Advanced Setting that overrides the WordPress Active Theme); All Pages (Advanced Setting that works with most, but not all, Themes and Plugins); All Posts (Advanced Setting that works with most, but not all, Themes and Plugins). None of the Themes in the WordPress Theme Directory alter the appearance of the WordPress Admin panels. As a result, this plugin does not allow Theme Selection entries to specify URLs for WordPress Admin panels. Use with Paid Themes: On-going full scale testing of Themes by this plugin’s author is only possible if the Theme is found in the WordPress Theme Directory. Although (Version 5 of) this plugin should now work with all Themes, any problems encountered while using Paid Themes will be difficult to diagnose. As described in the FAQ tab, a WordPress Network (Multisite) is an alternative to this plugin, as a way to create a single web site with more than one Theme. A similar situation exists with Paid Plugins. Use with Plugins that Cache: You may find that you have to flush the Cache whenever you change Settings in the jonradio Multiple Themes plugin. Some Caching plugins only cache for visitors who are not logged in as users, so be sure to log out before testing the results of your jonradio Multiple Themes settings. Changing Theme Options (Widgets, Sidebars, Menus, Templates, Background, Header, etc.)?: After installing and activating the plugin, see the plugin’s Settings page and click on the Theme Options tab for important information on changing Options for Themes other than the Active Theme. How it Works: The plugin does not change the Active Theme defined to WordPress in the Appearances-Themes Admin panel. Instead, it dynamically (and selectively) overrides that setting. Which means that simply deactivating (or deleting) this plugin will restore the way that Themes were displayed prior to installing this plugin. However, in some situations, it is possible to inadvertently alter Theme Options for the Active Theme when using either of the Methods described on the plugin’s Setting page Theme Options tab. Adoption Notice Special thanks to Jon ‘jonradio’ Pearkins for creating the plugin and making adoption possible.

Widgets Control is a toolbox that features visibility management for all widgets, sidebars, sections of content and content blocks. It allows to show widgets and sidebars based on conditions – you can choose to show them only on certain pages or exclude them from being displayed. Sections of content can also be restricted by using this plugin’s [widgets_control] shortcode. You can also define new WYSIWYG Content Blocks that can be used in widgets, sidebars and with shortcodes. For each widget and sidebar, you can decide where it should be displayed: show it on all pages show it on some pages show it on all except some pages … you can target small, medium or large screens for mobile, tablet and desktop users. To include or exclude pages, the plugin allows you to indicate page ids, titles or slugs and tokens that identify the front page, categories, tags, etc. In addition to page ids, titles and slugs, these tokens can be used to determine where a widget should or should not be displayed: [home] [front] [single] [page] [category] ... On sites using WPML, widgets can be shown conditionally based on the language viewed. The [widgets_control] shortcode is used to embed content and show it conditionally similar to the visibility options used for widgets and sidebars. For example, [widgets_control conditions="{archive}"]This text is shown only when the content is displayed on an archive page.[/widgets_control]. Widgets Control also provides flexible WYSIWYG Content Blocks and a proper widget that can be used to place them in sidebars, the [widgets_control_content] shortcode to embed freely created blocks anywhere on your pages and API functions that allow to include these blocks in PHP templates of your theme. For even more flexible control, use Widgets Control Pro which provides freely definable additional sidebars. Use display conditions to show or hide content on devices with small, medium or large displays, useful to adapt the display to mobile, tablet and desktop viewers. See the documentation for more details. Widgets Control works with virtually any widget. It is compatible with lots of plugins, among these it has been tested with: Groups Affiliates Decent Comments WooCommerce WooCommerce Product Search Search Live Documentation Events Manager BuddyPress bbPress Ninja Forms Gravity Forms Jetpack WPML NextGEN Gallery Image Widget MailChimp for WordPress The Events Calendar MailPoet Newsletters Elementor Widgets Control Pro Our Widgets Control Pro provides additional features: Conditions based on the viewed post type. For example, show a widget only on posts with [type:post] or only on product pages with [type:product] Show or hide widgets on full page hierarchies, where conditions are based on a parent page and all its child pages: some-page/* Show or hide widgets based on user roles. For example, show a widget to subscribers and customers only: [role:subscriber,customer] Show or hide widgets based on a user’s group membership with Groups. For example, show a widget only to registered users with [group:Registered] or show a widget only to users in a Premium group using [group:Premium] Show or hide widgets for archive pages of a specific post type. For example, [archive:product] can be used to show widgets for the WooCommerce shop page and product archives only. Allows to specify exclusions. For example, to show a widget only on pages, but exclude it from being shown on one or more specific pages. Provides additional sidebar features that allow to define any number of custom sidebars, flexible placement based on common locations, including above and below content, the comment form, menus and other sidebars, the [widgets_control_sidebar] shortcode to embed them in content on your pages and API functions to use them in your theme’s templates. Feedback Feedback is welcome! If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Widgets Control plugin page. Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with quality plugins! Please help with your feedback and we’re also grateful if you help spread the word about this plugin. Thanks! Twitter Follow @itthinx on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins.