Dynamic Widget Content

by Brecht

Description

The widget will only show if you have set some content for it on the current page. Perfect for creating dynamic widgets that only appear when you need it. Works with any custom post type as well and you can use shortcodes in the widget content!

Usage examples:

Post summaries
Positive and negative points for reviews
Index with links for long pages
Call to action links
…

Let us know what you think! Any feedback is welcome.

Installation

Upload the dynamic-widget-content directory (directory included) to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Add the ‘Dynamic Widget Content’ widget
Add content in the ‘Dynamic Widget Content’ meta box for posts or pages

Screenshots

Start by adding our widget to your website
Add widget content to any of your pages or posts
The widget will show up for that page/post only
A few settings are available for your convenience

Faq

Who made this?

Bootstrapped Ventures

Reviews

Perfect!

By captaincrank on February 16, 2023

We are using Dynamic Widget Content plugin to replace a different discontinued plugin that had security vulnerabilities. This Dynamic Widget Content plugin is lightweight and much easier to use then the plugin it replaced. Highly flexible, maintained and recommended!

Great

By pnt on September 24, 2020

Very useful

Must have!

By argosmedia on February 5, 2019

This is a great little plugin! By default WP is rather rigid and treats post/page content and widget content as unrelated content blocks, offering no way of simply adding content to a widget area from within the post/page editor page itself, and only relevant to that particular post/page. As a workaround I usually create some content blocks in Advanced Custom Fields, take their shortcodes and put those in text widgets, adding show conditions using widget logic. Rather cumbersome, but it works. Your plugin relieves me of all that and just offers exactly what I need: a simple way for me and my clients to add a content block into a widget area. Super!! The only requests I have is being able to use more than just 3 blocks, and to be able to add a title to the widgets (only for backend ease of use, not to be shown on the frontend).

Great plugin to simplify content updates

By dilusionz on November 6, 2016

Does what it says, super useful plugin!

Great plugin

By divachrismai on September 3, 2016

Love this plugin 🙂
Only downside is that you cannot use it in more than one "place".

Changelog

1.3.8

Fix: Block not selectable in block editor

1.3.7

Fix: Sanitize widget content upon save if user does not have unfiltered_html capability
Fix: Prevent block editor deprecation warnings

1.3.6

Fix: PHP 8.2 deprecations

1.3.5

Fix: PHP 8 deprecation warnings
Fix: Gutenberg deprecations

1.3.4

Fix: Settings page WordPress 5.5 compatibility

1.3.3

Fix: Gutenberg 3.9 compatibility

1.3.2

Fix: Gutenberg 3.3 compatibility

1.3.1

Fix: Gutenberg 2.7 compatibility

1.3.0

Feature: Gutenberg compatible, including new blocks
Improvement: Update VafPress library
Fix: Prevent PHP 7 deprecated warning

1.2.2

Fix: PHP 7 compatibility

1.2.1

Bootstrapped Venture Giveaway

1.2

Feature: Enable up to 3 dynamic widgets in the settings. Useful for multiple sidebars, for example.

1.1

Feature: Ability to set a default title and content (leave blank to hide)

0.0.2

Added a basic settings page
New ‘dwc_widget_output’ plugin hook to alter the output with code

0.0.1

Very first version of this plugin