Section Widget
Display arbitrary information only on selected sections of your site. Also allows you to easily organize them into tabs in your sidebar.
4(5 reviews)
·500 active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Section Widget is a WordPress html plugin with 500 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 60K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Top alternative: Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for….
4/55 reviews
500active installs
60K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Grand Prize winner of WordPress Plugin Competition 2009
Ever wanted to display a widget only on the front page? Subpages of certain pages? Posts with a certain tag? We’ve got you covered. With an extremely easy to use interface, you can create your section-specific widget in no time – without going through the frustration of writing PHP code (ala Widget Logic).
In addition to plain text and HTML, we have added shortcodes support into the mix. This means you can easily turn your crazy widget ideas into reality. Need a RSS widget for the posts in the “Movies” category? Yep, there is a shortcode for that. Show your AdSense ads only on the front page? There is a shortcode for that too – not to mention tag clouds, Paypal, Amazon… you name it. Or throw more C…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 3.8.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
Version 3.2.4
- fixed more strict php warnings and updated depricated use of user level function
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