The Virtual Sidebar plugin allows you to create 'virtual' sidebars that can have their content inserted into posts using shortcodes.
As of April 2026, Virtual Sidebar is a WordPress short plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Bring Back the Get Shortlink Button.
Virtual Sidebar is a plugin by Christina Louise Warne (aka. AthenaOfDelphi). It is designed to allow users to include widgets in post content by way of ‘virtual’ sidebars. Each virtual sidebar can have widgets added to it using the widget manager and can then be included in a post using the short code [vs id=””].
For detailed information about this plugin and how it works, check out it’s wiki page at Athena’s Wiki.
Virtual Siderbar, a plugin for WordPress, (C) 2010-12 by Christina Louise Warne, is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Virtual Sidebar is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,…
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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