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I'm looking for a plugin to let users choose which widgets appear on individual pages.

There's some solutions out there, none of which that I've found are truly easy for a non-technical user. I've tried

  • Woo Themes Sidebar manager - Great functionality, but a user would need a lot of training to understand templates, sidebars and widgets - quite confusing.
  • Plugins like Widget context and Widget logic, both of which, in my opinion are difficult for an average user.

I have seen a good-looking solution which uses the Genesis Framework (simple sidebars) - this has the right approach. The user can choose the widget from within the page editor. To me, that's the important point.

So, does anyone know any plugins (not using Genesis) which allow the same in-page choosing of sidebars?

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Try Display Widgets. It's what i use most of the time, and it's pretty simple to use from the Widgets settings. It might also be possible to tweak it to function as a meta box.

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Agreed, I've used it and it is very good and quite easy to use (lots of scrolling though) but as sites grow and so do the number of custom sidebars, the widgets page gets hard to manage. Also for the user it's hard to see which widgets are on which page. I'd really like to find a solution which appears on the edit page/post screen. – Pete Apr 13 '12 at 14:38

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