by Dustin Filippini 4.8 (5 reviews)

Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field

Name: Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field
Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Dustin Filippini

Add-on to Advanced Custom Fields giving you a field to display Widget Areas.

Advanced Custom Fields ranks #9,791 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #1,275 of 8,538 in the Customization category, a 4.8/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Oct 12, 2014. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4 (Current: 7.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 11 years ago Last Update on 12 Oct, 2014

Refreshed 14 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#1,275 of 8,538 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Oct 12, 2014
Requires WP: 3.4+
Tested Up To: 4
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Dustin Filippini

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 5
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress developers using Advanced Custom Fields who need to display widget areas within page templates. It solves this by adding an ACF field type with a drop-down of all registered widget areas, selectable for use with get_field and the_field.

Field for displaying Widget Areas
Drop-down selection of registered widget areas
Works with ACF get_field function
Works with ACF the_field function
Supports ACF version 4 and up
Supports ACF v5

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field

For this plugin to work, you need to have the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin installed. Once installed, you will be able to select a Widget Area as one of your custom fields.

The WordPress Codex has an article on Widgetizing Themes which includes "How to Register a Widget Area". If you add a new Widget Area (also called sidebar) with this method it will be available in Appearance > Widgets and also able to be selected in your new Widget Area Field.

The Advanced Custom Fields website has documentation on displaying custom field values.