Easily Control Appearance Of Widgets On Your WordPress Pages

By Sanjeev Shrivastava Our Bestseller: WordPress Themes

Everyone who is new to WordPress comes across a problem that how he/she can control appearance of widgets on his/her website? By default widgets appear in all pages but many people want their widgets to be appeared on some pages. Most of the WordPress users want customization and they want to fully control widget appearance on pages. For example you don’t want search widget to appear on any page except few pages. This is also useful for website visitors because they will see widgets relevant to the pages on which they are.

WordPress lovers always have one advantage that they easily get plugins to add any extra functionality they need. Yes fortunately there’s a cool plugin named “ Dynamic Widgets ”. This plugin lets you control appearance of widget on pages in a simple and straight forward way.

To download this plugin Click Here. Install and activate the plugin in your WordPress installation.

Now to control on which pages your widgets will appear go to ‘ settings ’ section of the plugin. To see settings of this plugin go to “ Appearance ” then “ Dynamic Widget ” and you will get a screen similar to this:

Once you are in setting panel of the plugin I would suggest you to check if this plugin will work for you or not? Yes this plugin will only work if:

You have at least one dynamic sidebar. Your theme must call wp_head(). your host supports PHP5.

To check whether your theme calls wp_head() or not? Click on advance link given at the bottom of setting panel. It will automatically tell you:

If it doesn’t indicates that your theme calls wp_head() or not then you should contact your theme developer.

Now let’s see how this pugin helps you control appearance of widgets? Suppose you want to control “search widget” appearance, click on search widget and you will get some options like this:

Now let’s consider you don’t want “search widget” to appear on “Front page” then click on it:

This plugin is really helpful when you want to show any widget on specific templates, yes then widget will appear on only those pages which are created using that template.

If you want to put restrictions based on who should see your widget then this plugin will help you. Yes you can define “Role”:

Further you can show/hide widgets based on Dates, Browser, Theme Template, Language (WPML or QTranslate), URL, for the Homepage, Single Posts, Attachments, Pages, Authors, Categories, Tags, Archives, Error Page, Search Page, Custom Post Types, Custom Post Type Archives, Custom Taxonomies in Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies Archives, WPEC/WPSC Categories, BuddyPress Components, BuddyPress Groups, Pods pages and bbPress.

Conclusion:

This plugin is really great and helpful for every WordPress site developer.  If you ever come across any situation where you have to place your widgets on your pages with conditions then this plugin is for you. You don’t need any coding knowledge to work with this plugin, if you have any doubts related to this plugin then visit author’s site here. Please Do share this post to help other users.

About Sanjeev Shrivastava
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