Widget Context vs Widget Content Blocks

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”.

WYSIWYG Widgets or rich text widgets This plugin adds so called “Widget Blocks” to your website which you can easily display in your widget areas. You can create or edit the widget blocks just like you would edit any post or page, with all the default WordPress editing functions enabled. This way, you can use the visual editor that comes with WordPress to format your widgets. You can even use media uploading to insert images and so forth. Features: Create beautiful widgets without having to write HTML code Easily insert media into your widget content Add headings, lists, blockquotes and other HTML elements to your widgets using the WordPress classic editor Use WP Links dialog to easily link to any of your pages or posts from a widget Use shortcodes inside your widgets Have a revision history of your widget content Translation ready Translations Is the plugin not translated into your language? You can contribute your translations using the translation editor here on WordPress.org. Source code The source code of this plugin is available on GitHub: ibericode/wysiwyg-widgets. About the plugin author Danny van Kooten has been building WordPress plugins since 2010, starting with WordPress 3.0. He is the founder of ibericode, the small software company behind popular WordPress plugins including Mailchimp for WordPress and Koko Analytics.