aug 12 2011

Flexible Widgets for WordPress

Flex­i­ble Wid­gets is a plu­gin for Word­Press that makes it pos­si­ble to dis­play a wid­get on selected cat­e­gories and/or pages.


The Flex­i­ble Wid­gets plu­gin lets you dis­play a wid­get on any cat­e­gory or page you wish. When set­ting up the wid­get, you are able to select the cat­e­gories and/or pages where you want to dis­play the wid­get. If none are selected, the wid­get will be dis­played glob­ally on your site, exactly like a default Word­Press widget.

The plu­gin comes in handy if you need your side­bar con­tent to change con­tex­tu­ally from page to page in rela­tion to your main con­tent. It is espe­cially use­ful if you want to use Word­Press as a CMS.

Flex­i­ble Wid­gets will replace the default Word­Press widgets.

Sreen­shot

Widget administration interface in the WordPress plugin Flexible Widgets

Select­ing cat­e­gories and pages in each widget’s back end.

Instal­la­tion

  1. Upload the flexible-widgets folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Acti­vate the plu­gin through the ‘Plu­g­ins’ menu in WordPress

or search for “Flex­i­ble Wid­gets” in the “Add new” sec­tion of the plu­g­ins menu in your Word­Press admin inter­face and hit “Install now”.

Change log

0.3

  • Fixes an issue: Option­ally dis­play wid­gets on the home page, whether it is set up to be a sta­tic page or the blog posts page.

0.2

  • Tiny update to get the plu­gin and author URIs right.
  • Update on the instal­la­tion info.

0.1

  • Brand new plu­gin. Still play­ing with the bub­ble wrap.

Known issues

May con­flict with themes or plu­g­ins which include cus­tom widgets.

Please see the plu­gin sup­port forum.

Addi­tional information

The Flex­i­ble Wid­gets plu­gin con­sists of a bunch of ideas and lines of code, I wrote for the Word­Press theme in use at the web­site of Hors­ens Pub­lic Library.

This is my first plu­gin for Word­Press. I am sure, there is room for improve­ment. The code is far from per­fect as my pro­gram­ming skills are some­what lim­ited. But I do think the idea is quite good, so if you can write lean code and are des­per­ately in need of a small side project, you should be very wel­come to help me out.

If you have any ques­tions or com­ments, feel free to leave a reply.

By Morten Brunbjerg Bech • Web Development, Wordpress • 7 • Tags: , , ,