Simple Page Sidebars - Wordpress Plugin

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Designed for simplicity and flexibility, Simple Page Sidebars gives WordPress users, designers, and developers the ability to assign custom sidebars to individual pages--without making any template changes. Existing sidebars can also be assigned in quick edit and bulk edit modes, helping save you time.

In contrast to some of the more complicated plugins available, Simple Page Sidebars aims for basic, core-like functionality and integration that's easy to use without polluting your admin panel. And due to the way sidebars are saved, it utilizes built-in WordPress caching, so your site won't be bogged down with additional queries.

Simple Page Sidebars also ships with a "Widget Area" widget for pulling all the widgets from one sidebar into another.

Benefits

No more site-wide, generic sidebars. Each page (or section) can have its own widgets.
Complete control over the names of your custom sidebars.
Assign the same sidebar to multiple pages.
Modify a page's sidebar without creating an unnecessary revision.

Advanced Usage

If you want to assign custom sidebars to archive pages or replace multiple sidebars per page, this plugin likely won't be the best solution. However it's flexible enough to handle a wide range of page-based use cases. It can even be configured to work with Custom Post Types by adding a couple lines of code:

function myprefix_init() { add_post_type_support( '{{post_type}}', 'simple-page-sidebars' ); } add_action( 'init', 'myprefix_init' );

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Translation Credits

Indonesian (id_ID) - Marga Satrya [v1.1.7]
Serbo-Croation (sr_RS) - Borisa Djuraskovic [v1.1.5]
Spanish (es_ES) - David Perez Closemarketing [v1.1.7]

Releases (13 )

Version	Release Date	Change Log
1.2.1	2018-07-27
1.2.0	2016-04-15	Transferred to Cedaro. Updated the Widget Area class constructor to prevent deprecation notices in WP 4.3+.
1.1.7	2015-01-22	Added Indonesian translation.
1.1.8	2015-01-22	Added Spanish translation.
1.1.6	2014-09-22	Prevent quick edit nonces from being submitted when searching or filtering a post list table.
1.1.5	2014-05-06	Added Serbo-Croatian translation.
1.1.1	2013-01-12	Worked around the slashing weirdness in WordPress API. Implemented a method to allow developers to easily add support for additional post types. No plans to build this out further, it's just here for additional flexibility if more complex solutions aren't wanted. Added a filter to disable the edit link in the custom Sidebar column (`simple_page_sidebars_show_edit_link_in_column`).
1.1	2012-11-13	Added an Edit Sidebar screen for updating a sidebar name and associated pages. Added an update message when a sidebar is saved on the Add/Edit Page screen. Made the sidebar column sortable on the All Pages screen. Refactored the codebase (formatting, improved comments, static classes, organization, etc). Added better feedback throughout the dashboard when something goes wrong. Saved spinner image to plugin folder due to updates coming in 3.5. Removed deprecated filters.
1.0.1	2012-07-19	Fixed bug causing issues with other plugins that don't submit the sidebar nonce on the All Pages screen.
1.0	2012-07-11	Modified check for blog page.
0.2.1	2012-07-11	Now works for the blog page when it's set in the Reading Settings. Bug fixes.
0.2	2012-07-11	Added an option to define the default sidebar on the Reading options panel. Removed the template change requirement. It's no longer recommended. Refactored code, including function/hook names. Deprecated `simple_sidebar` function. Replaced by `simple_page_sidebar`. Deprecated `simpsid_widget_areas` filter. Replaced by `simple_page_sidebars_widget_areas`. Deprecated `simpsid_widget_area_defaults` filter. Replaced by `simple_page_sidebars_widget_area_defaults`. Deprecated `simpsid_sidebar_name` filter. Replaced with `simple_page_sidebars_last_call`.
0.1	2011-12-08	Initial release.