Restrict Widgets vs Widget Context

Restrict Widgets is all in one solution for widget management in WordPress. It lets you easily control the pages that each widget will appear on and avoid creating multiple sidebars and duplicating widgets. You can also set who can manage widgets, which sidebars and widgets will be available to selected users, which widget options will be available and how it will be displayed. By default, Hide widget on selected is enabled with no options selected, so all current widgets will continue to display on all pages. For more information, check out plugin page at dFactory or plugin support forum. Features include: Hide or display each widget on selected pages, posts, categories, custom taxonomies, custom post types, single posts, archives, special pages, for logged in or logged out users, current language, mobile device and so on Select which user roles are restricted to manage widgets Select which sidebars will be restricted to admins only Select which widgets will be restricted to admins only Select which widget options will be restricted to admins only Choose to display or not widget options as groups Option to modify the is_active_sidebar() function to use Restrict Widgets display settings Multisite compatible WPML compatible Polylang compatible .pot file for translations included Translations: Chinese – by Changmeng Hu Czech – by Martin Kucera German – by Angelika Reisiger Hebrew – by Ahrale Shrem Italian – by Davide Pante Polish – by Bartosz Arendt

Use Widget Context to show and hide widgets on certain sections of your site — front page, posts, pages, archives, search, etc. Use targeting by URLs (with wildcard support) for maximum flexibility. Premium Support Subscribe to our Premium Support service and get the PRO 🚀 version of the plugin for free when it’s launched! Your support enables consistent maintenance and new feature development, and is greatly appreciated. Contribute Suggest code improvements on GitHub. Report bugs and suggestions on WordPress.org forums. Help translate to your language. Documentation Widget visibility can be configured under individual widget settings under “Appearance → Widgets” in your WordPress administration area or through the widget editing interface in the Customizer. Target by URL The “Target by URL” is a powerful feature for targeting sections of your website based on the request URLs. It was inspired by a similar feature in the Drupal CMS. Use relative URLs such as page/sub-page instead of absolute URLs https://example.com/page/sub-page because relative URLs are more flexible and make the logic portable between different domains and server environments. Wildcards Use the wildcard symbol * for matching dynamic parts of the URL. For example: topic/widgets/* to match all posts in the widgets category, if your permalink structure is set to /topic/%category%/%postname%. page-slug/* to match all child pages of the page-slug parent page. Use a trailing ?* to capture URL with all query arguments such as utm_source, etc. For example, for every blog/post-slug also include blog/post-slug?*. Exclude by URL Specify URLs to ignore even if they’re matched by any of the other context rules. For example, enter example/sub-page to hide a widget on this page even when “All Posts” is selected under “Global Sections”.