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PN Scripts Sidewend

A free WooCommerce plugin for conditional sidebars: show different widgets on chosen products, categories, tags and shop pages, in place of your theme's sidebar.

  • WordPress 6.5+
  • WooCommerce 9.0+
  • PHP 8.1+
  • Coming soon
  • External marketplace: WordPress.org

Coming soon to WordPress.org

Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.

Plugins WordPress
A chair product page in the Storefront theme with chair care and fabric sample widgets in the sidebar

What it solves

The gap

A WordPress theme shows the same sidebar on every page, so a chair and a lamp, or the cart and a blog post, get the same widgets.

What it is

PN Scripts Sidewend lets a widget area replace a theme sidebar on the products, categories, tags and pages you choose, and picks the most specific area when several fit.

How you use it

Create a widget area, choose the sidebar it replaces and where, add widgets, done.

Conditional widget areas for WooCommerce and WordPress pages. It changes which widgets show, not the theme's layout.

Who it is for

Use it when

  • Size charts, care instructions or delivery notes next to the products they belong to.
  • Moving widget areas over from WooSidebars.

Built for

  • WooCommerce merchants who want different sidebars on different products and pages.
  • Agencies and developers who run WooCommerce shops for clients.

What it does

The right widgets on the right page

A widget area replaces a sidebar of your theme on the pages you choose: shop pages, products in chosen categories or with chosen tags, single products, the cart, checkout and account pages, or site pages.

The most specific one wins

When several areas fit a page, a single product comes before its category and a category before all products. Equal ones: the newest wins.

Classic and block themes

Classic themes keep their own sidebar markup and only the widgets change. In block themes, the Product Sidebar block or a shortcode shows the area.

Import from WooSidebars

One click copies every WooSidebars widget area with its conditions and widgets. A dry run shows the result first, the import can be undone, and WooSidebars data is only read.

Specs

Availability
Coming soon to WordPress.org
Vendor
PN Scripts
Type
Plugin
Platforms
WooCommerce, WordPress
Pricing
Free
License
GPL 2.0 or later
Deployment
Self-hosted WordPress
Maturity
v1.0.2
Support
Community

Compatibility

Platform or runtime Supported versions Tested up to
WordPress 6.5 or newer 7.1
WooCommerce 9.0 or newer 11.1
PHP 8.1 or newer Not stated

Stack

  • WordPress 6.5+
  • WooCommerce 9.0+
  • PHP 8.1+

PN Scripts Sidewend is coming soon

The plugin is built and tested and will be free on WordPress.org. This page will link to it when it is there.

Coming soon to WordPress.org

Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.

Questions

No. It changes which widgets a sidebar shows on a page. A theme without a sidebar needs one, or the Product Sidebar block in a block theme.

Yes. The importer copies them with their conditions and widgets. Run it while WooSidebars still holds its widgets, check the result, then deactivate WooSidebars.

PHP 8.1, WordPress 6.5 and WooCommerce 9.0 or newer. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.1.

It is not published yet. It will be free on WordPress.org, and this page will link to it then.