Easily Create Beautiful Widgets with Widget Content Blocks

About Widget Content Blocks

This plugin allows you to easily create and edit widget blocks on your website, using the WordPress visual editor. You can add text, images, links, and other elements to your widgets without needing to write HTML code. The plugin is also translation ready and has support for multiple languages.

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Frequently asked questions

What does this plugin do?

This plugin adds widget blocks to your website that you can easily display in your widget areas.

How do I create or edit widget blocks?

You can create or edit widget blocks just like you would edit any post or page, with all the default WordPress editing functions enabled.

What features does this plugin have?

The features of this plugin include creating beautiful widgets without writing HTML code, easily inserting media into widget content, adding headings, lists, blockquotes, and other HTML elements to widgets using the WordPress visual editor, using the WP Links dialog to easily link to pages or posts from a widget, using shortcodes inside widgets, and being translation ready.

Are there any translators available for this plugin?

Yes, there are translators available for this plugin in Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and German.

Where can I find more information about this plugin?

You can find more information about this plugin on the WYSIWYG Widgets website and other WordPress plugins by the same author.

Changelog

2.3.10 – Feb 5, 2024

Version bump just to get rid of the “unmaintained” warning.

2.3.9 – November 11, 2019

Updated WordPress compatibility.

2.3.8 – October 25, 2017

Misc. textual improvements.

2.3.7 – August 29, 2017

Added German language file, thanks to Christian Gunther.

2.3.6 – September 29, 2016

Maintenance release. Mainly just removed some dead links from meta & getting rid of “not updated” notice. Happy widget blocking!

2.3.5 – March 18, 2015

Fixes

Video URL’s on their own line will now autoembed

Improvements

Code styling now adheres to WordPress coding standard

2.3.4 – December 20, 2013

Fixed: Paragraphs inside or after shortcodes
Improved: Changed widget name for more consistency

2.3.3 – November 18, 2013

Added: Italian translations, thanks to Tiziano D’Angelo
Improved: Code loading
Improved: added empty index.php files to prevent directory listings
Improved: all default WordPress’ post filters are now applied to the widget content as well.

2.3.2 – November 8, 2013

Improved: When show_title is false, (empty) title tags will not be displayed.

2.3.1 – November 6, 2013

Added: Spanish translations, thanks to Maria Ramos from WebHostingHub
Improved: Minor security and license improvements

2.3 – November 5, 2013

Improved: Title now changes with the Widget Block, no widget re-save necessary
Improved: Minor code improvements
Improved: Removed all third-party meta boxes from Edit Widget Block screen.
Improved: Plugin is now translation ready
Added: Dutch translation

2.2.6 – October 30, 2013

Fixed: Show title checkbox now defaults to a checked state.

2.2.5 – October 26, 2013

Added checkbox option to widget to hide the title.

2.2.4 – October 21, 2013

Moved menu item back to its own menu item
Widget title now defaults to the title of the selected Widget Block
Some textual improvements

2.2.3 – October 16, 2013

Moved menu item to pages to prevent capability problems
Removed WP SEO meta box from edit widget block screen

2.2.2

Improved: UI improvements, cleaned up admin area.
Improved: Minor code improvement

2.2.1

Improved: small code improvements
Improved: changed menu position

2.2

Fixed: shortcodes were not processed in v2.1.

2.1

Fixed: Social sharing buttons showing up after widget content.

2.0.1

Added: meta box in WYSIWYG Widget editor screen.
Added: debug messages for logged in administrators on frontend when no WYSIWYG Widget OR an invalid WYSIWYG Widget is selected.
Added: title is now optional for even more control. If empty, it won’t be shown. You are now no longer required to use the heading tag which is set in the widget options since you can use a (any) heading in your post.

2.0

Total rewrite WITHOUT backwards compatibility. Please back-up your existing WYSIWYG Widgets’ content before updating, you’ll need to recreate them. Don’t drag them to “deactivated widgets”, just copy & paste the HTML content somewhere.

1.2

Updated the plugin for WP 3.3. Broke backwards compatibility (on purpose), so when running WP 3.2.x and below: stick with version 1.1.1.

1.1.2

Temporary fix for WP 3.3+

1.1.1

Fixed problem with link dialog reloading page upon submit

1.1

Changed the way WYSIWYG Widget works, no more overlay, just a WYSIWYG editor in your widget form.
Fixed full-screen mode
Fixed link dialog for WP versions below 3.2
Fixed strange browser compatibility bug
Fixed inconstistent working
Added the ability to use shortcodes in WYSIWYG Widget’s text

1.0.7

Fixed small bug that broke the WP link dialog for WP versions older then 3.2
Fixed issue with lists and weird non-breaking spaces
Added compatibility with Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress plugin
Improved JS

NOTE: In this version some things were changed regarding the auto-paragraphing. This is now being handled by TinyMCE instead of WordPress, so when updating please run trough your widgets to correct this. ?

1.0.6

Added backwards compatibility for WP installs below version 3.2 Sorry for the quick push!

1.0.5

Fixed issue for WP3.2 installs, wp_tiny_mce_preload_dialogs is no valid callback. Function got renamed.

1.0.4

Cleaned up code
Improved loading of TinyMCE
Fixed issue with RTL installs

1.0.3

Bugfix: Hided the #wp-link block, was appearing in footer on widgets.php page.
Improvement: Removed buttons added by external plugins, most likely causing issues. (eg Jetpack)
Improvement: Increase textarea size after opening WYSIWYG overlay.
Improvement: Use ‘escape’ key to close WYSIWYG editor overlay without saving changes.

1.0.2

Bugfix: Fixed undefined index in dvk-plugin-admin.php
Bugfix: Removed esc_textarea which caused TinyMCE to break
Improvement: Minor CSS and JS improvements, ‘Send to widget’ button is now always visible
Improvement: Added a widget description
Improvement: Now using the correct way to set widget form width and height

1.0.1

Bugfix: Fixed the default title, it’s now an empty string. (”)

1.0

Initial release