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Genesis Simple Sidebars
Version: 2.2.3
Description
This plugin allows you to create multiple, dynamic widget areas, and assign those widget areas to sidebar locations within the Genesis Framework on a per post, per page, or per tag/category archive basis.
Creating widget areas programmatically, then using conditional logic to properly assign them to sidebar locations can be a complex task for a beginner. This plugin allows you to do all this from a simple administration menu, and assign widget areas to sidebar locations with simple drop-down menus within the post/page edit screens, or when editing a tag or category.
Installation
- Upload the entire
genesis-simple-sidebarsfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - DO NOT change the name of the
genesis-simple-sidebarsfolder - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Navigate to the
Genesis > Simple Sidebarsmenu - Create as many new sidebar widget areas as you need
- Choose the widget area you want to display by choosing it from the drop-down menu in the post/page or category/tag edit screen.
Faq
No. You can only assign them to the primary and secondary sidebars, using the plugin.
However, once a widget area has been created, you can use hooks to programmatically display those widget areas throughout the theme. But if you’re going to do that, it’s very unlikely that you would want to use the plugin to create the widget areas. You might as well just create the widget areas programmatically too.
Not in the way you’re probably thinking. The markup surrounding the widget area never changes. The only thing that changes is the dynamic content that displays within the pre-existing sidebar locations.
Reviews
Works as Stated
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Great, clean functionality
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Doesn't Work
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Doesn't work, effectively no support
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Doesn't Work
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Worked Great Out of the Box
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Excellent plugin
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OMG... why did I wait so long to do this?
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I spent about 10 minutes getting this plugin installed and set up. SO incredibly easy and now running custom sidebars on my site. Uses the widget function which I am super familiar with in the Genesis ecosystem.
no longer works for me, support thin
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Throwing errors on multiple sites.
Warning: Illegal string offset 'name' in /html/wp-content/plugins/genesis-simple-sidebars/plugin.php on line 105
Warning: Illegal string offset 'description' in /html/wp-content/plugins/genesis-simple-sidebars/plugin.php on line 107
Changelog
2.2.3
- Prevent a PHP fatal error under PHP 8.x if incomplete sidebar data exists.
- Fix a PHP deprecation warning under PHP 8.x.
- Fix Genesis download link in admin notice if a Genesis child theme is not active.
2.2.2
- Fix overlapping of sidebar selector in editor.
2.2.1
- Allow sidebars to show in the WordPress Posts page.
2.2.0
- Fixed coding standards errors.
- Introduced coding standards validation.
2.1.0
- Rewrite based on new plugin boilerplate.
- Make ID field readonly, rather than disabled.
- Add header widget area support.
- Allow for empty ID (auto-generate ID from name).
- Allow for only alphanumeric characters in ID.
- Use WordPress native term meta functions.
2.0.3
- Fix warnings and notices.
2.0.2
- Change text domain, update POT file.
2.0.1
- Genesis 2.0.1 compatibility with term meta keys.
- Use actual sidebar name, instead of hard coded names.
- Fix incorrect textdomain.
2.0.0
- Compatibility with Genesis 2.0.0.
- Standards.
1.0.0
- Reorganize theme files.
- Standards
0.9.2.1
- Restore default tag/category support.
- Default custom taxonomy support to on for public taxonomies.
- Remove secondary selection when no 3 column layouts are enabled.
0.9.2
- Added support for custom taxonomies.
- Added translation support.
- bug fix to prevent invalid sidebar creation.
0.9.1
- Added support for custom post types.
0.9
- Fixed “is not array” errors reported by users.
- Added nonce verification for security purposes.
- Added error and success messages.
- Bump to pre-release 0.9 branch.
0.1
- Initial Alpha Release.