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Free Plugin by Kalmang v1.6.6

Dynamic Widgets

Dynamic Widgets gives you full control on which pages a widget will display. It lets you dynamicly show or hide widgets on WordPress pages.

Dynamic Widgets

The facts

Rating
4.7★ from 109
Active installs
10k+
Price
Free
Last updated
12 Feb 2026
Added
Jan 2010
Requires WP
3.0.0
Tested up to
WP 6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.2.7
Downloads
1,024,868

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Dynamic Widgets is a WordPress plugin that allows you to control the visibility of classic widgets based on various conditional logic rules. You can set conditions for when widgets are displayed or hidden on specific pages without needing any PHP knowledge. The plugin supports a wide range of conditions, including user roles, dates, devices, and more.

This plugin is suitable for users who want to customise their widget display across different pages and scenarios, making it ideal for community sites, eCommerce stores, and multilingual websites. It is particularly useful for those using classic widgets rather than Gutenberg blocks.

Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users looking to manage widget visibility on their sites.

What it does well

  • Supports a wide range of conditional logic rules
  • No PHP knowledge required to use
  • Compatible with various WordPress features like BuddyPress and bbPress
  • Allows for detailed control over widget visibility
  • Free to use from the WordPress.org directory

Where it falls short

  • Only supports classic WordPress widgets, not Gutenberg blocks
  • Limited information available about the plugin's performance

Verdict

Dynamic Widgets offers a straightforward solution for controlling widget display, but its limitations with Gutenberg may affect some users.

From the developer

Kalmang's own description of Dynamic Widgets, lightly tidied.

Dynamic Widgets only supports classic WordPress widgets. If you’re looking to use this plugin for conditionalizing Gutenberg blocks, let us know and we will email you when it’s in the works.

Dynamic Widgets gives you full control on which pages a widget will display. It lets you dynamically show or hide widgets on WordPress pages by setting conditional logic rules on a widget with just a few mouse clicks. No knowledge of PHP required. No fiddling around with conditional tags. You can set conditional rules by Role, Dates, Browser, Featured image, IP Address, Mobile devices, Theme Template, Language (WPML or QTranslate), URL, for the Homepage, Single Posts, Attachments, Pages, Authors, Categories, Tags, Archives, Error Page, Search Page, Custom Post Types, Custom Post Type Archives, Custom Taxonomies in Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies Archives, WPEC/WPSC Categories, BuddyPress Components, BuddyPress Groups, Pods pages and bbPress.

Works or broken?

If the plugin is broken for you, please let us know in the Forum. We like to know, so we might be able to fix it to make the plugin also work for you.

Features

  • Default widget display setting is supported for:

    • User roles
    • Dates
    • Day of week
    • Weeknumbers
    • Browsers
    • IP ranges
    • Featured image
    • Devices (mobile, desktop)
    • Theme Templates
    • Languages (WPML)
    • URL
    • Domain name / Server name
    • Shortcode
    • Front page
    • Single post pages
    • Attachment pages
    • Pages
    • Author pages
    • Category pages
    • Tag pages
    • Archive pages
    • Error Page
    • Search Page
    • Custom Post Types
    • Custom Post Type Archive pages
    • Custom Taxonomy Archive pages
    • WP Shopping Cart / WP E-Commerce Categories
    • BuddyPress Components pages
    • BuddyPress Groups
    • Pods pages
    • bbPress User Profile pages

    Exception rules can be created for:

    • User roles on role, including not logged in (anonymous) users
    • Dates on from, to or range
    • Day of week on day
    • Weeknumer on number
    • Browsers on browser name
    • IP on ranges
    • Featued image on existence
    • Devices on type
    • Theme Templates on template name
    • Languages (WPML) on language
    • URL on starting with URL, ending on URL or exact match
    • Domain name / Server name on name
    • Shortcode on value match
    • Front page on first page
    • Single post pages on Author, Categories (including inheritance from hierarchical parents), Tags, Custom Taxonomies and/or Individual posts
    • Pages on Page Title and Custom Taxonomies, including inheritance from hierarchical parents
    • Author pages on Author
    • Category pages on Category name, including inheritance from hierarchical parents
    • Tag pages on Tag
    • Custom Posts Type on Custom Taxonomy and Custom Post Name, including inheritance from hierarchical parents
    • Custom Posts Type Archive pages on Custom Post Type
    • Custom Taxonomy Archive pages on Custom Taxonomy Name, including inheritance from hierarchical parents
    • WP Shopping Cart / WP E-Commerce Categories on Category name
    • BuddyPress Component pages on Component
    • BuddyPress Groups on Group, including hierarchical Groups provided by BP Group Hierarchy or Component
    • Pods pages on page

    Plugin support for:

    • bbPress
    • BuddyPress
    • BuddyPress Group Hierarchy
    • QTranslate and it’s forks (currently disabled)
    • Pods
    • WP MultiLingual (WPML)
    • WP Shopping Cart / WP E-Commerce (WPSC / WPEC)

    Language files provided:

    • Brazil Portuguese (pt_BR) by Renato Tavares
    • Chech (cs_CZ) by Pavel Bilek
    • Chinese (Simplified) (zh_CN) by Hanolex
    • Danish (da_DK) by Morten Nalholm
    • Dutch (nl) by Jacco Drabbe
    • French (fr_FR) by Alexis Nomine
    • German (de_DE) by Daniel Bihler
    • Japanese (ja) by chacomv
    • Lithuanian (lt_LT) by Liudas Ali�auskas
    • Portuguese (pt_PT) by Pedro Nave
    • Serbo-Croatian (sr_RS) by Borisa Djuraskovic
    • Slovak (sk_SK) by Serg
    • Spanish (es_ES) by Eduardo Larequi

    Privacy Policy

    Dynamic Widgets does not collect any private data, nor does it send any private data to remote servers. Please be aware that widgets might do. Dynamic Widgets does not read, write or alter contents or functionality of a widget it self, so this is beyond the scope and control of Dynamic Widgets.

    Read the full description on the official page →

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