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In case you haven't noticed, the internet isn't going anywhere--or is it? The web is constantly changing and evolving. Is your online presence up to snuff with the times we live in? We can get you there.
By Steph — September 6, 2009
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Change your sidebar content with each page. Avoid creating multiple sidebars and duplicating widgets by adding check boxes to each widget in the admin (as long as it is written in WordPress version 2.8 format) which will either show or hide the widgets on every site page. Great for use with Thesis theme, or just to avoid extra coding.
Changelog
1.5: Added “404 Page” check box
1.4: Changed “Home Page” check box to “Blog Page”
1.3: Added check box for Home page if it is the blog page, Added check boxes for single post and archive pages, Save hide/show option correctly for more widgets
1.2: Save page check boxes for more widgets
1.1: Fixed bug that prevented other widget options to be displayed
Update: Please post issues and questions in the support forum
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The plugin works fine with wordpress 3.0.1 too.
… definitely a “must have” plugin … Thanks for your great work …
Hardy from Berlin
Have been using Display Widgets since year dot and have never had any problems with it… It’s also on my list of “must have” plugins…
Keep up the great work guys…
Regards
Chris
I just updated the plug-in and I love it the new option to show or hide the widget if you were logged in or out is great! Just what I needed. Thanks for the Fabulous work.
Hi Steph, Thanks for this, it’s exactly what I needed on our page-intensive site for my partner’s Complementary Healthcare practice.. Donation sent
(the site will be live from 4 January). Great work!
Thx for putting so much time into your WP plugins. Display Widgets is a real time saver. Again, thx.
Unfortunately it does not work with all widgets
Don’t know if there is a special trick a widget must include to be compatible with, but there are definitely important widgets out there that are left completely unaffected by this plugin
Fantastic Plug-in. in reading the comments and over 50K downloads, Nice. I am trying to use it with WP 3.1.2 Theme: Redline ver 1.6 and Cincopa1.106 (cincopa.com) a Plug-in for displaying media. Though you should know about this. Your plug-in is a great feature. It would be really great if you would consider looking into this further, perhaps there is a solution that could be applied without to much work on your end? In any event congratulations on a great Plug-in. All the best.
OOOOPS— In reading my previous post about your Plug-in, you can sense the enthusiasm in my comments-I forgot to mention the main point. YOUR PLUG-IN DOES NOT WORK with the Redline theme and Cincopa Plug-in. The solution I referred to was to check and see what could be done to make this work with Redline and Cincopa Plug-in. Sorry for the reposting.
Wonderful Plugin!! However, a small problem when it comes to the archive page. It displays my calendar widget archives for all categories without further filtering by categories. I wonder how to fix this. If anyone has the solution, I’d be so grateful for it!!
Hi!
I don’t know how to use this plugin because don’t apear in my dashboard menu and.
I love this plug-in but I am having a hard making items show up on a single page. I am not the most code savvy person around so I thought you could point me towards some instructions. I have someone who has asked to have an entry only show up on a single page. Do I Comma use the “Separated list of IDs of posts not listed above” box at the end and enter in the “post=number”? I have copied part of the url here:
wp-admin/post.php?post=699&action=edit
Would I enter 699?
Thanks for the help
Yep. Enter 699 in the box.
Thanks for such a quick response. If I set it to “Show on Checked” and enter the 699 in the box – nothing shows up. Other than entering in the number, what other variables do I need to select?
Hi
Great work, but using it for specific IDs does not seem to work in 3.1.3.
Thx
Looks like I fixed this and never released it. Released now.
Hi Steph,
I’m a newbie and set up travelbart.com, using Genesis theme Simple Sideabars, but think your Display Widgets might be better and easier over the long run.
Problem: I’m so damned new, I installed your pluggin, but haven’t the foggiest how to find the panel to use it – and I’ve looked all over.
What’s the secret this newbie is missing?
thx,
Bart
Hi Steph,
I have tried to use the plugin with theme http://aquoid.com/news/themes/suffusion/ but it seems to break the widget page. I am fairly new to WordPress so although I will look into this myself I thought it may be worth letting you know.
hello Steph
thanks for your Display Widgets,but now I don’t kown how to use it still
thanks for your display widgets,I am able to set it.Do have a good time
Hi, Stephanie: I just updated Display Widgets to version 1.19. It’s great having access to custom taxonomies.
I noticed that the cursor function wasn’t working on the jQuery toggle function so I looked at the code and saw that “cursor” was spelled “custor”, which was causing the problem.
Also, any thought to adding a selection by term to DW?
Thanks for the awesome widget!
Doesn’t seem to work with WP 3.2 (tried on three different themes).
Chris
Please ignore what I wrote…seems to be specific to some themes. Also, I have should been more specific, sorry. The check boxes appear when in Widgets, but when you check to hide, they do not hide. Using the opposite, (show on checked) doesn’t work either (i.e., shows on all pages).
AGain, it works with WP 3.2 (using the default theme).
thanks,
Chris
It works…but its also broken. It will show or hide for the most part. But when using a plugin that allows you to put pages in categories, showing or hiding based on categories is broken and doesn’t work…so I have to manually show or hide…gets tedious.
After upgrading to the newest version of WordPress (3.2.1), I get all kinds of extra text boxes in widget box. The text entry boxes will have either a 1 or a 0 in it. Again, this only happened right after I upgraded to 3.2.1.
Steph
Just implemented Display Widgets for Thesis theme in WP 3.2.1 and it is working great so far. I’m happy to make a donation to help you keep up the development and support of this kind of great product – where do I go? Thanks!
Thanks so much! You can donate at http://strategy11.com/donate/
Great plugin – but a question that perhaps you can help with.
When the logic is hiding a widget – for example showing a promo only on the home page (using ‘Show on checked’ and checking ‘Front page’) – the widget is hidden, but the container markup id displayed – eg:
I’m using a custom child theme of Thematic.
I’m wondering if the issue is that the widget areas are being created based on the conditional:
is_active_sidebar(‘sidebar-name’)
and adding a widget to an area satifies this, even if your plugin is hiding it.
The problem this causes is partly styling – the container div still exists – and takes styling – and also validation since the empty is not valid.
Or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Hello,
After installed the plugin, i go to the ‘Widgets’ menu, but don’t see the option menu.
Thank you
Hello,
I have the same issue as the previous post, After installed the plugin, i go to the ‘Widgets’ menu, but don’t see the option menu.
Is there something I’m missing?
Thanks
Hi,
thx for this plugin, its worked 3.2.1 version.
I translate it Turkish
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Thanks a lot for this plugin. It really needs and I finally got it. Nice work. Thanks a lot once again.
Steph,
Excellent plugin—it works wonders! Just a quick question. Can you suggest a plugin that works in conjunction with Display Widget to display the actual page names so I could exclude them from the pages widget. For instance, instead of having to type in all the pages that I do not want to include in the page widget…b/c sometimes I have a lot…I could just click a checkbox or highlight a page name to include or exclude? Sort of like how Display Widget works with the checkbox on pages you want to include it on?
Thanks in advance!
Vincent
Thanks a lot for this plugin. It really needs and I finally got it. Nice work. Thanks a lot once again.
Sorry but It isn’t working. I set “Display widgets” with “Twenty Eleven 1.2″ (default wordpress theme) in “WordPress 3.2.1″ and I couldn’t show “Language Widget” in any page. Any ideas? has anyone the same problem?
Solved, you need “Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions”, Thks
Steph, you are awesome! I found your plugin after using Widget Logic for a while. You have managed to make it even simpler to change sidebars.
I thank you fair lady.
Warm Regards,
Steve Light
Thank you for this awesome plugin!
I am having a problem though, I am not seeing any of my widgets appear in my custom post types. I am seeing my custom post types as checkboxes in the widget options though.
Any ideas?
Just a heads up. The Display Widgets plugin has disappeared from the WordPress.org repository.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/
What happened?
Thanks. It should be back now. They told me after I asked it was removed because it included an affiliate link on that page. Sure would be nice if there was someplace where they listed the requirements and restrictions or at least give you a warning since these requirements appear to be undocumented. I’ve gotten plenty of emails this morning because of it. Awesome.
@Steph
I’m just glad to hear it’s not gone. Thanks
I’am new to WordPress (I normaly use Joomla) and the first Plug-in I installed was yours. Perfect ! Just what I was looking for and seems to works fine. Thanks for the Plug-in.
It doesn’t works in all plugins. can you help me out to use in Twitter wings plugins?
I love this widget. It works perfectly, however, some widgets don’t show the ‘display widget’ options. Is there anyway around this?
I cannot think of a better more simple and efficient plugin. Simply a MUST have. THANK YOU !!!
Hi, I am having a strange problem. I have two sites both using suffusion Theme, on one site the plugin works great on the other it does not change the widget page and the appearance is the same as the standard WP widgets page. When I installed it said it had installed correctly. Am I doing something stupid?
brilliant plug-in i’m loving it – apart from it not displaying anything on my home page. Strange…If i disable the plug-in everything displays as expected in my home page side bar. Any ideas? I’m just using the twenty 11 theme.
thanks for any prompts
Is this plugin similar to how ‘TS Custom Widgets’ works? I’m trying to find a better widget controller.
Display Widgets not working with Headway base theme and WP 3.3.
Widgets show on home page but no other pages, even though ‘show on checked’ is selected and the checked items are ‘front page, blog page, archive page, single post’.
Any one else experienced this, or know of a solution?
I am using Display Widget with no problems so far. This widget is great. I am wondering, however, if there is a way to extend the page content to the full page width when the widgets are not displayed. I am currently displaying a widget on my home pager only, on the primary area, but on the other pages where the widget is not displayed, I have a large margin area. Thanks.
Hi there- love your plugin but, like some other posters, I find it does not work with all widgets – the options just don’t show up – any suggestions on how to make it work for all widgets?
Thanks!
Harmony