Plugin Pick: Block Widgets

When you look at our sidebar, you will see a different widget at the top depending on the page you are viewing. We have a quick links list to services when viewing services pages, and an intro to the blog, when you are visiting the blog. In some instances we provide a page summary, and sometimes a call to action. This cool new function you can add to your blog without any theme mods!

Just download the “Widget Block” plugin, and upload through the Plugins – Add New panel.

1. Download and Activate plugin.
2. Configure in the Appearance>>Widgets panel.
3. Drag and drop widget into spot in sidebar.
4. Add “label” – the heading, and check the box.
5. Add text or html to the “widget code” box.
6. Click the “include these pages” radio button and enter the urls that you’d like the widget displayed on.  If this is for one page, enter the relative page url without slashes. For example, on my “https://desperatelyseekingwp.com/about” page, it is simply, “about” without the quotes.
7. To display ALL SUBpages of the page “about” it would be “about/*”  without quotes.
8. To display this on all pages except a few, you need to select the “exclude these pages” radio button, and enter your pages, one url on each line.  For example:
   “about”
   “contact”
   “services/*”
   Using the above urls will exclude all static pages from displaying the widget- displaying it only on post/category/archive pages.
9. If you’re not sure if your front page is a “static page” or a “post page” then you can use “<frontpage>” without the quotes in the URLs box.
10. Click Save!