Context Manager
Make your site react to users' context by changing your theme's CSS and JavaScript files, navigation menus, sidebars and the HTML body tag.
5(5 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 12 years agoAs of April 2026, Context Manager is a WordPress rules plugin with 20 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: If Menu – Visibility control for Menus.
5/55 reviews
20active installs
4.7K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Context Manager makes your site behave differently depending on the current user’s context. Using the simple point-and-click admin pages, there are four different ways your site can react:
- Include and exclude CSS and JavaScript files
- Changing the behaviour of menu items
- Hiding widgets in sidebars
- Adding extra classes to the
<body>tag.
The plugin supersedes Menu Rules
Example usage
A website has e-commerce shopping functionality driven by a custom post type called ‘products’. There’s an archive page called ‘shop’ that lists products and is linked to in the main navigation menu.
A user visits ‘shop’ and the menu item becomes ‘active’, but when they click through to an individual product, the menu item loses its state. The…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.2.0
- [Bugfix]: disabled assets reaction which triggered errors in 3.6. No feasible workaround found yet
- [Bugfix]: added conditional checks into widgets reaction
Contributors
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