All bloggers make good use of the sidebar in their template. Whether it is 2-column, 3 column-sidebar or just multiple sidebars, our aim as a blogger is to make good use of them all. Thankfully for us, WordPress has made it so much easy with the use of widgets wherein all we have to do is drag and drop things.
Of course just like anything, people sometimes abuse the use of widgets and sidebar elements. How many bloggers have you seen cluttering their sidebar too much? Or how many useless widgets usually do appear on most sidebars? The ease of using widgets have enabled bloggers to become a bit trigger-happy with putting so much at the same time.
Widget Logic WordPress Plugin
The topic above leads us to the widget logic plugin. What widget-logic does is basically lets user use conditional tags to control the pages where a certain widget will appear on. It sounds a bit basic but trust me this one is a helpful plugin.
Looking at my blog you would see that some widgets that appear on home don’t necessarily appear on the other pages and vice versa. If you’re more technically literate, you could actually play more with the conditional tags to achieve your desired result.con
For example here in my blog, I don’t display the top commentator widget anywhere outside the home page basically because the home page is the strongest page in my blog. Another is my “Blog Marketing for Fame” eBook widget wherein I don’t display it in the index page primarily because I already have it in the middle sidebar part. But when you go to the posts and pages, you could see it at the top most part of the sidebar. You can do your own variations depending on how you prefer it.
Its all about maximizing each and every part of your blog
When I went with the blog’s redesign, my aim is to maximize every space without annoying/cluttering my readers’ mind. So with widget logic plugin, I was able to really implement things that I want. It gave me the flexibility of mixing and matching different elements in the sidebar.
How about you, have you used this widget already? If yes, maybe you can tell me some of your implementation techniques and tips. If not, I would highly recommend using it. Check out the widget logic plugin page.
Sounds like a nice and useful plugin. As long as it do not increase my Blog Loading time I will use it.
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As I don’t use widget logically in my sidebar, I actually don’t need this plugin. However, I love to see the PHP code as I wanted to do similar thing in my sidebar like you. 🙂
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Definitely it will not increase your blog’s loading time so nothing to worry. 🙂
PHP code in sidebar is another different thing. You need to download the PHP sidebar widget for wordpress so that you are allowed to put php codes in your sidebar
thanks for this useful post. i can benefit from is while widgetizing my blogs.
I downloaded the plugin and uploaded it and installed it in the appropriate folder and now I get a internal server error message. How can I solve this?