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Widgets And Design

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

Widgets are one of WordPress’s primary features, allowing you to display various types of block content in sidebars, footers, and other sections of WordPress sites. Whatever material you add to the widget area will be applied to the overall website. But, there are instances when you need to display some specific widgets on specific pages of WordPress sites.

This is a very simple tutorial on how we can apply these settings to any widget in some easy steps.

Step 1: Open the WordPress dashboard by signing in to your account and then navigate to Plugin > Add New

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

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Step 2: Once the add new plugin page opens. Navigate to the search bar and type Widget Context

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

Step 3: After successfully installing the Widget Context plugin. Open the Widgets window.

Note: For this plugin to work you may need to have a classic widget editor which might not be available on some themes. In this case, install the Classic Widgets plugin then open widgets page.

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

Step 4: Click on the widget which you want to modify. For example: as shown in the below picture I have chosen the search bar.

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

Step 5: You may select from the dropdown to apply the setting as per your requirement. In case you want to show/hide your widget on the selected page then follow step 6.

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

Step 6: If you want to hide/show your widget on the selected page click on “show widget on selected” from the dropdown showing step 5. Then enter your specific page URLs in the “Target by URL” section.

Hide or Show Widgets on Selected Pages of WordPress

Step 7: That’s it! you are done. Just click on the save button and enjoy.

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Satyendra is a Biotechnologist from the city of Nawabs, Lucknow. Apart from blogging, his other interests are Indian rap knowledge, affiliate marketing, poetry, and basically anything nerdy.

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