Title: Arbitrary Sidebars
Author: chrisguitarguy
Published: <strong>septembre 24, 2012</strong>
Last modified: septembre 24, 2012

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# Arbitrary Sidebars

 By [chrisguitarguy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisguitarguy/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/arbitrary-sidebars.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/arbitrary-sidebars/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/arbitrary-sidebars/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/arbitrary-sidebars/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/arbitrary-sidebars/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/arbitrary-sidebars/)

## Description

Arbitrary Sidebars allows you to add widget areas via an page in the WordPress admin
area. What you do with those sidebars on the front end is up to you and your theme.

**This plugin requires PHP 5.3+**. Please check your server configuration before
installing.

Some use case ideas:

 * The end user wants to associate sidebars with individual posts and pages. This
   plugin ould provide half that functionality: easily creating widget areas.
 * You need reusable content blocks and want to take advantage of the widget system.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * View of the admin list table, where you see all the sidebars current registered
   with this plugin.
 * [[
 * The form to add a new sidebar.

## Installation

Install via the WP Admin installer. OR…

 1. Click the big button and grab the plugin zip file.
 2. Unzip it
 3. Upload the `arbitrary-sidebars` folder to your `wp-content/plugins` directory
 4. Activate the plugin via the admin area.

## FAQ

  How can I change the args paged to register_sidebar?

First off, the sidebar name and ID are defined in the admin screen.

There are a few filters you can hook into and use to modify other args.

Hook into `arbitrary_sidebars_args` to modify the the sidebar arguments for the 
entire plugin.

Hook into `arbitrary_sidebars_single_args` to modify the arguments for a single 
sidebar based on its ID.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Arbitrary Sidebars” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ chrisguitarguy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisguitarguy/)

[Translate “Arbitrary Sidebars” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/arbitrary-sidebars)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arbitrary-sidebars/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/arbitrary-sidebars/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release
 * Allows user to add widget areas via an admin screen

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **14 années ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/arbitrary-sidebars/)
 * Tags
 * [sidebar](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)[sidebars](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebars/)
   [widget](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tah.wordpress.org/plugins/arbitrary-sidebars/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ chrisguitarguy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrisguitarguy/)

## Support

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