SIDEBAR & WIDGET MANAGER FOR WORDPRESS

This WordPress widget plugin not only allow you to control what widget will be shown on what pages, posts, categories it also have a shortcode system that allows you to build up unique page layouts using widgets. Check out the videos and see for yourself how cool this plugins is.

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ADVANCED TEXT WIDGET PRO

This plugin provides flexible widget visibility conditions for every widget on your site, including core and third party widgets provided by other plugins.

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NAVIGATION MENU WIDGET

This is an advance widget that gives you total control over the output of your menus. Support multiwidget, resizeable page featured image, easy to customize and full features. Displays a list of menu as links. This widget is based on the WordPress function: wp_nav_menu()

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ADVANCED CATEGORIES WORDPRESS WIDGET

Advanced Categories Widget is an advance widget that gives you total control over the output of your categories. Support multiwidget, category image, easy to customize and full features. Displays a list of Categories as links. When a Category link is clicked, all the posts in that Category will display on a Category Page using the appropriate Category Template dictated by the Template Hierarchy rules.

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CUSTOM POST WIDGET

The Custom Post Widget allows you to display the contents of a specific custom post in a widget. This allows you to use the WordPress WYSIWYG editor for preparing text for a widget area. It is pretty cool as the out of the box text widget is not very easy to use if you want to add images, links etc.

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BETTER RECENT POSTS PRO

Better Recent Posts Widget Pro provides a greatly enhanced recent posts widget. The default recent posts widget that comes with WordPress offers almost zero control over which posts are displayed, or how they are displayed.

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WP CATEGORY POST LIST WIDGET

This is one of my personal favorites and I use it on several sites to show various lists of posts. It has build in support for CSS templates and it makes it really powerful on websites where you use it in different spots and use cases.

MORE INFO / DOCUMENTATION – by swashata (free plugin)

WORDPRESS WIDGET NINJA

Widget Ninja is used to control widget visibility based on conditional tags. It eliminates the need for multiple sidebars because you can configure each widget to ie. be visible only on the front page or only in certain categories. With 23 conditional tags (8 can take additional parameters such as post or category ID’s) and 3 logical statements (or, and, not) you can configure a widget to (not) show upon literally any page! It doesn’t matter if it’s a single page, archive, search page or 404 – there’s a conditional tag for everything!

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CUSTOM WORDPRESS WIDGET AREAS

The plugin lets you create an unlimited number of Sidebars (Custom Widget Areas), easily lets you configure them by adding widgets, and then place them directly inside the content of Pages and Posts by simply using Shortcodes. We have also added support for Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies. It recognizes your themes default sidebars and allows you to replace them, as well as allowing you to set individual sidebars for each Page, Post and Category.

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SHORTCODE EXEC PHP

This plugin lets you execute arbitrary, reusable PHP code in posts, pages, comments, widgets and RSS feeds using shortcodes. This is pretty cool and a good way to add custom scripts to your site, compared to editing the theme files.

MORE INFO – by Marcel Bokhorst (free plugin)

ADVANCED LINK WIDGET

An advance widget that gives you great control over the output of your links.

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HTML JAVASCRIPT ADDER

HTML Javascript Adder allows to insert HTML, javascripts, shortcodes, advertisements, flash embed codes, plain text etc in the sidebar via widgets with advanced targeting on posts and pages.

MORE INFO / DOCUMENTATION – by Aakash Chakravarthy (free plugin)

TABS WIDGET FOR WORDPRESS

This plugin creates a new WordPress widget to display a tabbed panel with different content types on your site. Tabs can rotate one after the other thus allowing for more exposure of the content: your posts are no longer hidden.

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WORDPRESS WIDGET BUNDLE

WordPress Widget bundle is a combination of the 9 most used widgets/shortcodes for WordPress. Every widget is very easy to style because you can make custom views/templates for every widget. This bundle is essential for every WordPress website. Default WordPress has some of this widgets onboard, but we made a primium versions of these widgets with more options and ajax support were needed. All the widgets can also be placed with shortcodes. this way you can really use these widgets were you want, even if your theme isn’t widget ready.

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ADVANCED POST LIST

Highly customizable plugin for designing a large variety of post lists to be shown using shortcodes e.g. in a widget. It will allow you to create lists with your own design for displaying Recent Posts, Popular Posts, Related Posts, Future Posts, etc. Including Custom Post Type & Taxonomy support.

MORE INFO – by jokerbr313 (free plugin)

5SEC CONTENT SCROLLER

This plugin allows you to add a scroller effect to content from your site, twitter / RSS feeds, custom text. See the demo!

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FANCY TEXT WORDPRESS WIDGET

Using notes is quite popular in modern web design to catch the visitors attention. This WordPress widget plugin makes it easier than ever to add them.

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TESTIMONIALS WIDGET

Testimonial widget plugin allows you display testimonials in a widget on your WordPress blog. More than one widget can be displayed, each pulling from testimonial sets by using tags. Each displayed widget has its own identifier allowing for custom CSS styling.

MORE INFO – by SriniG (free plugin)

EXTENDED TAGS WORDPRESS WIDGET

An advanced widget that gives you total control over the output of your tags. The Tags widget replaces the default WordPress Tag Cloud widget. This version gives total control over the output to the user by allowing the input of all the arguments typically seen in the wp_tag_cloud() function

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WP-RECENTCOMMENTS

Show the recent comments in your WordPress sidebar. You can limit the number of comments, set the maximum length of excerpts, filter out pingbacks/trackbacks. You can also enable or disable the avatars, resize and reposition them. Besides above, it supports WordPress Widget

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NINETY AJAX LOGIN/REGISTER WIDGET

Sidebar Login/Register plugin for WordPress does exactly what it says on the tin; Logins and Registrations with a touch of AJAX magic. Simple!

It also has a nice ‘logged in’ view, and a lost password form for those forgetful folk.

Its simple to get started – in most cases just activate the plugin, add the widget to your sidebar and go!

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AUTOR AVATAR LIST

With this plugin it is now easy to display lists of user avatars on your blog. It also allows to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page.