Content Aware Sidebars

The admin can setup rules which will dictate when a sidebar is shown and when not.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• Added:
• Date module to display sidebars on date archives
• Basque and french translations
• Fixed:
• Support for MariaDB 10.0

What is new in version 2.6:

• Added:
• Date module to display sidebars on date archives
• Basque and french translations
• Fixed:
• Support for MariaDB 10.0

What is new in version 2.4:

• Added:
• Compatibility with WP 4.0
• Better UX design for condition groups
• Better UX design for sidebars in widgets screen, including an edit link
• Dashicon for admin menu (wp3.8+)
• Fixed:
• Using some newer WordPress actions and filters for admin columns

What is new in version 2.3:

• Added:
• Content rule boxes can be hidden in screen options in sidebar editor
• Help tab in sidebar editor
• Widgets count column in sidebar overview
• Menu order moved to options meta box in sidebar editor
• Fixed:
• Merge position option hidden on forced replace handle
• Polylang compatibility now 1.2+
• Width of columns in sidebar overview
• Removed:
• Exposure column in sidebar overview

What is new in version 2.2:

• Added:
• Sidebar displayed in theme customizer (wp3.4+)
• Widget management integration in theme customizer (wp3.9+)
• Handle for forced replace
• Fixed:
• Reduced database queries in sidebar editor
• Disable all add to group buttons before creating first condition group

What is new in version 1.3.5:

• Fixed:
• Menu would disappear in rare cases.
• Search function now searches in title and slug (not content) for post types.
• Added:
• Search function displays at most 20 results instead of 10.

What is new in version 1.3.2:

• Added:
• Items found in search now added to list directly on select.
• Fixed:
• Some terms found by search could not be saved.

What is new in version 1.3:

• Added:
• Post type posts and taxonomy terms now searchable on edit page
• Sidebar handle and host shown on widgets page
• Slovak translation
• Fixed:
• Sidebar meta boxes more robust to external modifications
• Admin column headers more robust to external modifications
• Sidebar menu now always hidden for users without right cap
• Code optimization and refactor for performance

What is new in version 1.2:

• Added:
• Polylang support
• BuddyPress support
• Managing sidebars now requires edit_theme_options cap
• BBpress user profile has own rules instead of author rules
• Filter for content recognition

What is new in version 1.1.2:

• Added:
• WordPress 3.5 compatibility.
• Fixed:
• Slight CSS changes on edit screen.
• "Show with all" checkbox toggles other checkboxes correctly.

What is new in version 1.1.1:

• Fixed:
• Slight CSS changes on edit screen
• tick.png included
• Taxonomy terms could influence each other in rare cases
• Taxonomy wide rules for taxonomy archives
• Cache caused db update module to skip 1.1 update if going from 0

What is new in version 1.1:

• Added:
• Improved GUI on edit screen including content accordion
• BBpress forum-topic dependency
• Sidebars hidden on password protected content
• Relevant usermeta cleared on plugin deletion
• Fixed:
• Performance gain by dropping serialized metadata
• Database data update module revised
• CSS class in posts and terms walker
• Limit of max 200 of each content type on edit screen (temp)
• Style and scripts loaded properly

What is new in version 1.0:

• Added:
• Plugin rewritten to flexible modular system
• Built-in support for bbpress, qtranslate, transposh, wpml
• Lithuanian translation
• Fixed:
• All present rules now dependent of each other
• Sidebar update messages
• Specific hooks now not sitewide
• Better use of meta cache
• Dir structure
• Unexpected output notice on plugin activation

What is new in version 0.8.3:

• Added: Danish and Italian translation
• Fixed: sidebar query might be larger than max_join_size
• Fixed: row content in admin overview would be loaded with post types with matching keys

What is new in version 0.8:

• Added:
• Some rules are dependent of each other if present.
• Widgets in removed sidebars will be removed too.
• Database data update module.
• Rewrite rules flushed on plugin deactivation.
• Data will be removed when plugin is uninstalled.
• Icon-32 is back.
• Message if a host is not available in sidebar overview.
• Fixed:
• Prefixed data.
• Data hidden from custom fields.
• Manage widgets link removed from trashed sidebars.
• View sidebar link removed in wp3.1.x.
• All custom taxonomies could not be removed again when assigned to sidebar.
• Altered options meta box on edit screen.
• Check if host of sidebar exists before handling it.

What is new in version 0.7:

• Added:
• Sidebars will be displayed even if empty (i.e. hidden)
• Author rules on singulars and archives
• Page template rules
• JavaScript handling for disabling/enabling specific input on editor page
• Fixed:
• Minor tweak for full compatibility with wp3.3
• Function for meta boxes is called only on editor page
• Proper column sorting in administration
• Specific post type label not supported in WP3.1.x
• Type (array) not supported as post_status in get_posts() in WP3.1.x
• Code cleanup

What is new in version 0.6.3:

• Added: combined cache for manual and automatically handled sidebars
• Added: display_ca_sidebar accepts specific ids to be included
• Fixed: only a limited amount of sidebars were present in widgets area
• Fixed: better caching in sidebar editor
• Fixed: page list in sidebar editor could behave incorrectly if some pages were static

What is new in version 0.5:

• Added: search, 404, front page rules now supported.
• Fixed: custom tax and terms are now supported properly (again).

What is new in version 0.4:

• Added:
• Post type archives, taxonomy archives and taxonomy terms archives now supported.
• Taxonomy rules.
• Removable donation button.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.1 or higher