Plugin Review – Woosidebars
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woosidebars/
Version Tested: V 1.4.3
Woosidebars is a plugin that allows you to replace sidebars with those of your own creation on specific pages throughout your WordPress site, technically you could have a different sidebar per page.
Installation is a case of installing and activating the plugin, once you have done that you get a new page – Dashboard>>Appearance>>Widget Areas. It is here where you will setup, view and configure your new widget areas, which will appear within the Dashboard>>Appearance>>Widgets page.
ON testing I found I had issues using this for a BuddyPress installations; whilst I was able to configure new sidebars for my site homepage for example, I was unable to configure sidebars for my BuddyPress static pages such as Activity, Groups etc, even though these pages were listed by the plugin, selecting them and inserting new widgets did not display them on those pages.
Similarly although there are options to select forum pages for new widget areas when I tried this in my simple test setup again this seemed to fail with no new widget area being displayed on any BuddyPress group forum page.
I found using the plugin itself very simple compared to other sidebar plugins that I have tried, if only the basic BuddyPress pages could be supported though, given this lack of support for BuddyPress then I will have to give this plugin 6 out of 10.
My Star Rating
Other Peoples Reviews
shadyshane
Does not support PHP 8.0
The plugin is not being updated anymore. Latest PHP release 8.0 throws a FATAL ERROR.
March 16, 2021
penseelibre
the best plugin for woo widgets
I've tried others: none are as suitable for woo commerce
October 6, 2019
basebond (base007)
Dead
Sad that this is not being support anymore.
July 20, 2019
cornelisdigitaal (connectcase)
Not good
The idea is very good, but the execution is flawed... [...]
I tried to add a custom sidebar on my WooCommerce shop page but noticed that there was now also a sidebar in the products overview in the WP admin!!
When I tried to de-activate and update it, it does not allow me to do that. I just stays checked! Read more »November 26, 2018
dilusionz
Don't waste your time - doesn't work at all
You can add a new widget area but nothing saves in it, stays empty all the time. Its very buggy now and needs updating - otherwise don't bother.
November 24, 2018
Zen777 (markbanf)
Doesn't work properly
Plugin worked initially but when I updated the regular sidebar for all pages, the individual pages stopped working completely. Had to uninstall.
November 15, 2018
hola1 (saidaicashback)
Fatal Error and site crashed
I hate when a plugin crashes my site. This is what happened. And it is really annoying as deleting even the whole woocommerce plugin doesn't help. I would give zero star if possible. For causing me so much problem. [...]
Fatal error: Can't use function return value in write context in /home2/********/public_html/********/wp-content/plugins/woosidebars/classes/class-woo-sidebars.php on line 756 Read more »July 9, 2018
iamlaurie (abanista)
very nice plugin
Nice plugin. Perfect solution if you want to have different sidebars per condition. and given it comes from woocommerce, 5stars
June 2, 2018
Kousekmusic
Works, but weird..
Somehow works, but i am not exactly know how. After time, is in administration mess, attributes are missing... weird.
May 8, 2018
Bozz (bozzmedia)
Useful plugin, could use an update
Still working well on PHP 7 and WP 4.9, at least thus far. Support is mostly non existent. Haven't found a comparable replacement to this plugin that has the same functionality.
December 20, 2017
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