Display arbitrary sidebar content conditional upon a particular post or page.
As of April 2026, Aside Widget is a WordPress php plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
Aside widget allows a page or post to insert arbitrary content into a
sidebar (or other dynamic widget area), supporting something similar to the
typographic notion of a ‘pull-quote’.
Aside widget is triggered by the presence, in those pages which require it,
of one or more ‘aside’ custom fields with values that specify the content
of one or more widgets. Shifting the locus of widget content control from
the widget to the page makes for more natural authoring of conditional
content which needs to be associated with just a small number of pages.
As well as text, an ‘aside’ custom field may contain HTML and/or PHP code.
Of course, any HTML should be crafted so as not to break the containing
page structure. PHP parsing must be explicitly enabled in the w…
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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