Do you want the ability to add any widget to your posts, pages, custom post types? Well now you can do it with this simple plugin. WidgetBuddy gives user the ability to add a [wb] shortcode anywhere that a shortcode is useable that will outputs a specific widget.
UPDATE: I just updated the plugin to version 0.6 that includes auto-updates from the backend of WordPress in the Admin Dashboard. Please remember that this is early release software, there may or may not be bugs, but I’ll get them fixed as soon as possible.
I’m updating the download system, please be patient if the download is unavailable. Thanks!
How to work with this plugin
- Install the plugin (like any other plugin) and activate the plugin
- Go to the Widgets area and add the widget you want to use to the WidgetBuddy meta box
- Once you get the settings just how you want and save the widget in the WidgetBuddy meta box it will give you the shortcode text to copy/paste
- Now you can take that shortcode (and add some of the additional settings – see below) and paste the shortcode anywhere on your site that accepts shortcodes.
Screenshot of WidgetBuddy's Anywhere Widget Meta Box
Additional Settings
In addition to selecting a widget and placing it anywhere on your site using a shortcode, you can also wrap the title of the widget as well as the complete widget with simple arguments like:
before_widget=”" and after_widget=”"
before_title=”" and after_title=”"
(See below examples for how to use this plugin)
Examples:
[wb id="text-4"]
Places the text widget with an id of text-4
[wb id="text-4" before_title="<h1>" after_title="</h1>"]
Places the text widget with an id of text-4 and wraps the title of the widget with an h1 tag
[wb id="text-4" before_widget='<div class="bluemoon">' after_widget="</div>"]
Places the text widget with an id of text-4 and wraps the entire widget with a css class bluemoon.
Notes & Updates
== v.0.7 ==
- With this update, I accidentally introduced an error for those people using Multisite. The plugin works fine but it will kick out an array error. Just ignore and I’ll fix it in the next update.
== v.0.6 ==
- Typo and bug fixes
== v.0.5 ==
- Added Auto updating
== v.0.4 ==
This is the first publicly released version, I’d love to hear back from people what type of improvements they would like to see.
