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Widgetize Pages Light

Description

Widgetized pages in WordPress are very powerful tool. Have you ever wanted to drag and drop a widget in a page content area, but the only widgetized sections of your theme are usually sidebars and footers?

Check on the Widgetize Pages Light: Demo site | Documentation page

You can now easily widgetize a page and drop widgets in page or post content area or any template file. Adding widgets on pages is a very flexible way to build your own unique page layout. This is very easy and fun to do and requires no coding knowledge at all.

Use the new OTW Grid Manager Light component to build your custom Responsive layout in no time. It is all done in a nice and easy interface. Add some rows and columns in the rows. Insert the sidebars in the columns.

You can use as many widget areas (sidebars) in as many pages/posts as you need. Creating sidebars(widget areas) is unlimited.

The plugin has very easy and intuitive administration area designed to fit into the core WordPress design. Check out the screenshots section or just download it and try it out.

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How Widgetize Pages Light works:

  • Create a custom sidebar(widget area)
  • Insert the sidebar shortcode in the page editor wherever in the content you need it – either use the Insert Sidebar Shortcode button in the editor or copy/paste the sidebar shortcode.
  • Go to your widgets section (Appearance -> Widgets) and drop some widgets in your new sidebar.

Advanced users:

  • Add any sidebar created with this plugin in any part of your wordpress site. To do that use the shortcode of the sidebar you want to add and the do_shortcode WordPress function in any of the template files of your theme.

Screenshots

  • Create a custom sidebar(widget area)
  • Use OTW Grid Manager Light to create your custom page layout and insert the sidebars. Easy in no time!
  • Go to your widgets section (Appearance -> Widgets) and drop some widgets in your new sidebar
  • Get the shortcode
  • Insert Sidebar ShortCode button
  • Select sidebar to insert
  • Shortcode

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Widgetize Pages Light

Installation

Please refer to online documentation page for more details and screenshots.

FAQ

Please refer to online documentation page for more details and screenshots.

Reviews

September 22, 2020
Looks like the plugin developer has abandoned it as the incompatibility hasn’t been addressed for many weeks. This means that users have to avoid ANY plugins created by OTWthemes
August 27, 2020
Doesn’t work propperly with PHP 7.4 and PHP7.3. Plugin author doesn’t answer questions, his last response to suppoprt questions is more than three years ago – seems kind of abonned 🙁
September 13, 2018
Promising software, but has fatal bugs and looking at the error messages it seems like there are some simple typos in some of their variable name calls. Unfortunately, the free version of the software is unsupported, so I’ve no choice other than to uninstall and choose another similar product.
March 16, 2017 1 reply
Well, what a THIEF. Below this is my original review of this plugin. I just found another widget plugin named “Widgets on Pages” by toddhalfpenny. It seemed very familiar, the interface looks exactly the same, the options, the way it worked. It even had the same bug of leaving the sidebar behind after being uninstalled. I compared it to this plugin, and this one was made 3 months after the other one was. This one is being SOLD by otwthemes-dot-com. It is called “Sidebar & Widget Manager for WordPress” and cost $23. I do not approve of this behavior. My original rating was 5 stars, it is now 1 star. ORIGINAL – I was really surprised to see the plugin actually works. It does exactly what I was hoping it would do, put a widget where a post would usually be. I just uninstalled the plugin and noticed it left behind the sidebar I created with it. I wish I could delete it, but no big problem really. – ORIGINAL
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Contributors & Developers

“Widgetize Pages Light” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

Updating to version 1.5 or higher requires deactivation of the old version first! More info here

3.0

  • Updated: Apply Default requests values
  • Fixed: Dynamic shortcode fields

2.9

  • Fixed: Check for registered block editors
  • Updated: Core components

2.8

  • Updated: OTW shortcode dialog loading improvements
  • Updated: Latest version of shortcode and factory component
  • Fixed: Help message formating

2.7

  • Updated: Use strict mode for javascript
  • Updated: Escape html attributes
  • Updated: Use WP filesystem for file operations
  • Fixed: Detect whether api call is from admin or frontend

2.6

  • Fixed: remove lang pack since it requires en by default

2.5

  • Updated: latest version of OTW factory
  • Fixed: error mode modification

2.4

  • Updated: WordPress 4.8 compatibility
  • Updated: menu ordering
  • Updated: domain name

2.3

  • Updated: WordPress 4.7.x compatibility
  • Updated: OTW core functions

2.2

  • Added: WPML compatibility verified by the WPML team

2.1

  • Added: Responsive layouts
  • Updated: OTW core functions

1.19

  • Updated: WordPress 4.5 compatibility
  • Updated: OTW core functions

1.18

  • Updated: javascript shortcodes settings optimization

1.17

  • Added: Text domain for translations/internationalization

1.16

  • Added: Sidebar status update

1.15

  • Updated: use wp build in function for plugin url

1.14

  • Fixed: wp link wrap zindex added

1.13

  • Fixed: Popup buttons css fixes

1.12

  • Updated: Remove global object style definition

1.11

  • Updated: Add json column check

1.10

  • Updated: Grid Manager – no content wrapping where not needed

1.9

  • Updated: replace depricated functions

1.8

  • Updated: minor grid css changes

1.7

  • Updated: new nicer interface
  • Added: More flexible filters
  • Added: OTW Grid Manager Light – build custom layouts, insert sidebars, nice and easy interface for wiedgetizing pages

1.6

  • Updated: Better compatibility on a single WP installation for Widgetize Pages Light, Sidebar Manager Light, Widget Manager Light, Sidebar Widget Manager full version
  • Fixed: typing mistake

1.5

  • Updated: Activation method and replacement functionality

1.4

  • Added: Insert Sidebar Shortcode button in page/post editor

1.3

  • Fix: CSS loading paths

1.2

  • Fix: Plugin’s dirname and url paths
  • Fix: Compatibility on a single WP installation for Widgetize Pages Light, Sidebar Manager Light, Widget Manager Light

1.1

  • Fix: Loading path

1.0

  • Initial release