Last Updated 29 Jul 2024
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Introducing Lightweight Sidebar Manager

Quick Summary ↪ Introducing the Lightweight Sidebar Manager, a new free WordPress plugin that allows you to customize sidebars for specific pages on your site. This is especially useful for eCommerce pages, where showing relevant content like top seller products is more beneficial. Find out how to use it here!

Sidebar manager WordPress plugin

Normally you have a sidebar that appears throughout the website. However, sometimes it is necessary to display a relevant, different sidebar on certain pages on the website. For an example: on WooCommerce pages, a sidebar with related or top seller products would be more relevant than latest comments, blog posts right?

We just released a free plugin to help you solve that problem. It works with any theme, is very simple to use and most importantly it’s very lightweight.

Please check it out here.

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Sujay Pawar
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24 comments
  1. Junaid Rashid Profile Pic

    It is not working !!
    I have tried using it on category page, but it is displaying main sidebat

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Make sure you have set the target rules correctly, If a page/archive has two different sidebars selected from target rules, the first one will be displayed.

      Can you open up a support ticket with more details?

  2. Vale23 Profile Pic

    Hello,
    Very useful Plugin!
    I have a question:
    Is it possible to have a double side bar ? Left and Right custom side bars…
    Do you have a code or a workaround to achieve that?
    Thank you

      1. Tym Profile Pic

        Is it possible for collapse in the side bar?
        The more product I love in the more categories/sub-categories/sub-sub-ect.-categories it generates. As to where my side bar out grows my page in length.

        1. Team Astra Profile Pic

          Hello Tym,

          Unfortunately, no we do not have such a feature to collapse the sidebar.

          There might be some other plugin which can help achieve this requirement.

    1. Sujay Pawar Profile Pic

      Yes, that is easily possible. We offer a meta box on all pages where you can enable or disable sidebar for specific page.

      1. Nancy Profile Pic

        So if I want to ONLY have a sidebar on my blog page…your plug-in allows that?
        If so…do you have screenshots or a printout explaining this process

  3. Rendt Profile Pic

    Is there a way a user can switch ‘modes’ that also switch the sidebar in use? Rather than linking to different sections of the site, I would like to just change the sidebar for different audiences.

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      Can you explain your requirement with an example so that it will be helpful to answer your question? Particularly I could not understand what do you mean by “different audience” and “mode” that you are referring to.

  4. NILADRI BISWAS Profile Pic

    Hello Sir,
    I’m using this Make in India Astra Theme proudly
    But would you like to guide me how can I add left and right sidebar both in complete website* ?

    Thank You in Advance.

  5. Shashidhar K R Profile Pic

    Hello team,

    I was using your Lightweight Sidebar for a few months. Yesterday, I deactivated to sort out another issue with my blog. After that when I again activated the Lightweight Sidebar plugin, all my earlier settings have gone. And only the Sidebars are displayed in the widget section. The custom HTML links I’ve inserted separately for each post are missing.
    As I have used this plugin in around 20 posts, all having different custom HTML links in the sidebar. Im really in deep trouble. Can you kindly guide me to sort out this issue?

    1. Team Astra Profile Pic

      This is noted and forwarded to our team, if feasible we will surely consider this for our plugin.

      I hope that helps.

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