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Lightweight Sidebar Manager

by Brainstorm Force

Version: 2.0.0

Description

Normally you have a sidebar that appears throughout the website. However, sometimes it is necessary to display a relevant, different sidebar on certain pages on the website. For an example: on WooCommerce pages, a sidebar with related or top seller products would be more relevant than the latest comments, blog posts right?

This plugin helps you solve that problem as it allows you to create new sidebars and display them conditionally on certain locations of the website easily. Once the sidebar is created and displayed on pages you like, you can add relevant widgets in it.

Try it out on a free dummy site

Some of the Features:

Create unlimited sidebars
Place them any location your theme has defined (Footer Widgets / Left or Right Sidebar)
Works with any theme
Conditionally display sidebars on specific posts, pages, taxonomies or custom post types
Display sidebars based on user roles

Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Go to Appearance->Sidebars to create new sidebars
In Appearance->Widgets, you can add widgets in the newly added sidebar area.

Screenshots

Add a New Sidebar from Appearance -> Sidebars -> Add New.
Give sidebar a name, Select a sidebar that is to be replaced and locations where the sidebar should appear.
Add Content to the newly created sidebar.

Faq

Which themes does this work with?

This plugin works with all well coded themes that have sidebar locations defined.

There are many other similar plugins. Why this?

Other plugins we found are heavy with ugly interface, non supported, developed only for specific themes or affecting performance. So we wanted to develop something simple & straightforward so we can recommend it users of our Astra Theme.

Reviews

Very Helpful and Works Nicely

By twowithink on January 6, 2025

Very helpful plugin and thank you to the developers!!!

Easy to use, works well

By landreiziger on January 30, 2024

It took jut a few moments to figure out how to use this plugin (just follow the instructions), but then it was very easy. And it allows us to personalize our site to a much greater degree than ever before. We use it most in conjunction with Product Filter by WBW plugin because we have many products and many categories--and as a customer navigates our site, we want certain filters to appear on ceratin pages. This Sidebar plugin made that super easy.

Website not opening after installation

By Tasadduq Hussain (tasadduq786) on October 15, 2023

Hi there!
I wanted to try this pluging after some reviews but to my unfortunate, the website where I installed this plugin is not opening after installation.

Easy does it

By tastymouse on January 13, 2023

One of these simple things WordPress doesn't offer yet. This plugin works and is easy to use.

Doesn't work in Graphene

By Francisco T. Arquer (Francisco Arquer Thome) on October 31, 2022

Doesn't work in Graphene

Great plugin!

By alissawu on April 20, 2021

The theme I am using to develop my website came with sidebars but they were not dynamic. After testing about 3 sidebar plugins, I was about to give up, then I found this one. It was very easy to use and works perfectly. I would highly recommend this plugin if you are looking for an easy way of incorporating sidebars on your website.

Good but only for testing purposes

By karlemilnikka on January 22, 2021

Great idea for a plugin. It’s easy to use and does exactly what it says. The developer does however not respond to bug-reports in a professional way, so I wouldn’t rely on it for critical sites. It works well for testing purposes though.

Not very helpul

By Dipen (dipen1) on January 19, 2021

This does not work very well for me. It has some major issues. In order to set the sidebar for the pages/posts, you have to go to appearance > Astra options > sidebars. Then filter through four sets of options to get the sidebar where you want. For most people, this is not intuitive. It’s time-consuming and very confusing. Ideally, you should just go to the page you want to edit and select the sidebar you want on the page. Astra already has a settings area on the page where you can choose the location of the sidebar (left, right, none). It would make sense to then have some checkboxes below this to choose which sidebar you want to display on the page, instead of having to do it at appearance > Astra options > sidebars. But I understood some people like having control over all their sidebars in one place. For them, this plugin may be helpful, but it does not have filters to set the sidebar according to a specific category. The current process to set a custom sidebar is very confusing and time-consuming if you have a lot of pages/posts where you want to have different sidebars. I would like to request the Brainstorm Force team to add an option in the Gutenberg editor section from where we can select the sidebar we want for specific pages/posts. In this way, the plugin will be helpful for both types of people who want to have a master control to set sidebar at once and for the people, who want to set sidebar according to their pages/posts from the editor section itself.

Easy to use.

By Avinash Kumar Sharma (avi1020p) on October 17, 2020

Gret plugin to add a sidebar for a specific page.

Does what is says, but...

By Steve (aksteve) on July 9, 2020

This works just fine but for me it has one major issue. (I see this in a lot of themes as well.) In order to set the sidebar for the page you have to go to appearance > astra options > sidebars. Then filter through four sets of options to get the sidebar where you want. For most people this is not intuitive. It's time consuming and confusing. Ideally, you should just go to the page you want to edit and select the sidebar you want on the page. Like I said, I see a lot of themes use this non-linear way of setting things up. Problem is, you end up having to go five different places to change the settings and design of your page. Astra already has a settings area on the page where you can choose the location of the sidebar (left, right, none). It would make sense to then have some check boxes below this to choose which sidebar you want to display on the page, instead of having to do it at appearance > astra options > sidebars. I guess some people like having control over all their sidebars in one place. But it makes it very difficult and time consuming when you are trying to design a page. You can tell this was designed by a developer. A design surely would have made it easier. (nothing personal to developers... 🙂 I would give this a two-star rating because of the illogical way it is implemented. I just don't subscribe to this way of thinking. But since this is my personal preference and I realize some like having multiple control panels to design one page, then I guess I will give it another star.

Changelog

2.0.0

Fix: Fixed security issue from astra-notice library.

1.1.8

Fix: Sidebar rendering issue where specifying “All Singulars from {{category}}” resulted in incorrect display of “{{category}} – Category” after saving.

1.1.7

Fix: Added compatibility with WordPress v5.7 for jQuery migration warnings on admin page.

1.1.6

Improvement: Hardened the security of plugin.

1.1.5

Fix: Security hardening.

1.1.4

Fix: Fixed compatibility with other plugins with respect to the admin notice.

1.1.3

New: Users can now share non-personal usage data to help us test and develop better products. ( https://store.brainstormforce.com/usage-tracking/?utm_source=wp_dashboard&utm_medium=general_settings&utm_campaign=usage_tracking )

1.1.2

Improvement: Hardened the security of plugin
Improvement: Compatibility with latest WordPress PHP_CodeSniffer rules

1.1.1

Fix: Fixes a fatal error on Sidebar list page.

1.1.0

New: Target rules appearing in Display Rules column for sidebars.
Improvement: White Label can be set from wp-config.php file.

1.0.2

Improvement: Update target rules with support for targeting all posts inside taxonomies and terms.
Fix: If a taxonomy is used for multiple post types, it was not displayed in target rules.
Fix: Load correct textdomain and allow the plugin to be translated from translate.W.org

1.0.1

White Label support added from the Astra Pro plugin.
Optimized target rules query to be even more lightweight.

1.0.0

Initial release

Version:Version: 2.0.0
Active installs:Active installs: 100K
Last updated:Last updated: 6 months ago
Requires:Requires: 4.0
Tested:Tested: 6.7.2

Average rating:4.2 out of 5 stars.

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