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Conditional Widgets

v3.3
by Jason LeMahieu (MadtownLems) · 4.5 (24 reviews)

Easily control the display of widgets based on pages or categories

8K+ active installs Updated Feb 14, 2025 Tested to 6.7.2
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About Conditional Widgets

This plugin allows you to customize which pages and categories your widgets are displayed on or hidden from. However, please note that it will not work with the upcoming WordPress 5.8 update unless you also use the Classic Widgets plugin.

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Changelog

3.3

    Updated tested to version, documented support for custom post type and taxonomy support

3.2

  • Tested through version 6.5.5

3.1

  • Added message to readme explaining the future of Conditional widgets after WordPress 5.8

3

  • Improved string translatability (Props @alexclassroom)

2.2

  • New Features: Hide on Desktop / Hide on Mobile. (Note that using either of these options will immediately hide the widget when the condition is true, and any other options to ‘show’ will be ignored.
  • Fixes lots of small bugs related to the display of the widget control form

2.1

  • Major update of code formatting to better align with WordPress style and guidelines – props @cFoellmann
  • Support Conditional Widgets toggle JavaScript on the Customize screen

2.0.5

  • Attempted to resolve the strict warnings
  • IMPORTANT! If updating in a MultiSite/Network environment, you’ll need to visit the dashboard of every site for the plugin to continue to work properly. If you have a large network, consider using my helper plugin: https://github.com/MadtownLems/cets-multisite-dashboard-crawler

2.0.1

  • Major Rewrite: modified how settings are stored.

1.8

  • Added an additional checkbox for ALL pages/categories to, once again, make the UI even easier to understand

1.7

  • Added VERY basic string translation support
  • Tweaked UI surrounding pages/categories to be easier to understand

1.6

  • Only display the informative debugging text when WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY is true
  • More verbose informative debugging text

1.5

  • Fixed a bug surrounding the extra conditional checks on some configurations (Thanks, mmcginnis!)
  • Added debugging and informative statements while WP_DEBUG is enabled

1.4

  • Added support for Posts Pages (when using Static Front Page)

1.3

  • Added support for saving options on Widgets that didn’t otherwise have options

1.2

  • Added option for Tag Archives (by request)

1.1

  • Added options for Search, 404, Date Archives, and Author Archives

1.0.2

  • Small edit to play nicely with some other plugins and their additional processing

1.0.1

  • Basic bug fixes: resolved some warnings and errors. (Sorry for the inconvenience.)

1.0

  • Initial Release

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