Dynamic sidebar for wordpress using custom post type and shortcode
| Author: | Codeboxr (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.0.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.4.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.5 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 13-06-2015 |
| Last updated: | 03-05-2020
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | https://codeboxr.com/product/cbx-dynamic-side... |
| Total downloads: | 1 791 |
| Active installs: | 20+ |
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CBX Dynamic Sidebar for WordPress helps to create dynamic sidebar or widget position using custom post type. Sometimes we need to put sidebar inside content and this plugin
helps to create sidebar using custom post type and put the sidebar inside content using shortcode using simple shortcode
[cbxdynamicsidebar id=”post id here” /]
It’a also possible to call the sidebar using direction function call in theme
<?php
if(function_exists('cbxdynamicsidebar_display')){
$sidebar_id = 'post id here';
$config_array = array(
'id' => $sidebar_id,
'wclass' => 'cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper',
'wid' => 'cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper',
'float' => 'none'
);
echo cbxdynamicsidebar_display($config_array);
}
?>
or more simple way
<?php
do_shortcode('[cbxdynamicsidebar id="post id here"]');
?>
From the custom post type “cbxsidebar” post edit screen there are other features that is implemented using meta field for
- sidebar class
- sidebar description
- sidebar before widget html wrapper
- sidebar after widget html wrapper
- sidebar widget before title html wrapper
- sidebar widget after title html wrapper
- sidebar enable disable without deleting the sidebar post
- Translation ready
- Gutenberg block support (From v1.0.5)
Shortcode & function Param Definition
id – sidebar post id
wclass – sidebar will be wrapper in a div and it will have a class from the value of param ‘class’, default value is ‘cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper’. also extra another class will be added using ‘cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper’ with sidebar id at last
wid – sidebar will be wrapper in a div and it will have a class from the value of param ‘cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper’, default value is ‘cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper’ with sidebar id at last
float – default value ‘none’, other possible values ‘left’, ‘right’, which means float none/auto, float left and float right
For shortcode with all possible param –
[cbxdynamicsidebar id=”post id here” float=”left” wclass=”cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper” wid=”cbxdynamicsidebar_wrapper” /]