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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.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 5
- Active installs
- 20+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 13 Nov 2013
- Added
- Dec 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.2
- Tested up to
- WP 3.7.41
- Downloads
- 4,866
Our analysis
AI-assistedContext Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows your site to adapt based on the current user's context. You can control various elements such as CSS and JavaScript files, menu behaviours, sidebar widgets, and body classes through an easy-to-use admin interface.
This plugin is suitable for those managing e-commerce sites or any site that requires dynamic changes based on user interactions. It helps enhance user experience by ensuring relevant content is displayed while hiding distractions.
Best for: This plugin is best for e-commerce sites or any WordPress site needing context-specific customisation.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows for customisation of CSS and JavaScript based on context
- ✓Enables hiding of widgets in sidebars
- ✓Facilitates changing menu item behaviour
- ✓Easy point-and-click admin setup
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in November 2013, which may affect compatibility
- •Limited active installs may indicate a smaller user base
- •No information on support or documentation beyond Twitter
Verdict
Context Manager provides useful functionality for tailoring site behaviour to user context, but its age and limited active installs may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
Phill Brown's own description of Context Manager, lightly tidied.
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 user becomes lost.
- Install the Context Manager plugin
- Add a new context rule
- Give it a meaningful name in the title field. This is just for administration purposes
- In the conditions field enter
is_singular( 'product' ) - Choose Emulate current page as a child but do not create a menu item. as the menu rule
- Find your products page in the menu dropdown
On the product page, there are irrelevant widgets that distract the user from making a purchase.
- Hide irrelevant widgets under the widgets reaction
The whole shop section requires its own colour scheme, but there’s no common class that ties all the pages together.
- Enter
shop-sectionclass name in the body class reaction. Or alternatively, register another stylesheet usingwp_register_style()in you theme’sfunctions.php. - Create
Remember to click publish when you’re ready to save.
Have a look at screenshots to see the above setup in action.
Support
If you’re stuck, ask me for help on Twitter.
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