by ctltwp 4 (5 reviews)

Section Widget

Name: Section Widget
Rating: 4.0 (5 reviews)
Author: ctltwp

Display arbitrary information only on selected sections of your site. Also allows you to easily organize them into tabs in your sidebar.

Section Widget ranks #9,278 among WordPress.org plugins with 400+ active installations, is #1,277 of 8,543 in the Customization category, a 4/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated May 2, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.8 (Current: 7.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 02 May, 2025

Refreshed 8 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#1,277 of 8,543 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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#9,278

-8 this week

Active Installs

400+

-22.5%

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Downloads

60.6K

+8 today

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Rating

80%

Review 4 out of 5

4 (5 reviews)

Next Milestone 500

Total Progress 95%

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5 reviews

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

May 2, 2025 UNPATCHED

Section Widget [section-widget] <= 3.3.1 (unfixed)

CVE-2025-46537 · No fix released
Apr 30, 2025 UNPATCHED

Section Widget [section-widget] <= 3.3.1 (unfixed)

CVE-2025-46441 · No fix released

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: May 02, 2025
Requires WP: 3.6+
Tested Up To: 3.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: ctltwp

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

html shortcode tabbed tabs text

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to display widgets only on specific pages, posts, or sections of their site. It solves the problem of showing targeted widget content without writing PHP code, using conditional rules and shortcodes instead.

Section-specific widget display
Shortcodes support
Tabbed widget interface
Drag-and-drop tab creation
25 switchable jQuery UI themes
Conditional custom fields shortcodes
Taxonomy support
Post type support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Section Widget

Go to the Section Widget settings page (under the Appearance admin menu). Select any themes from the drop-down. Click "Preview" to show the on preview. I cannot see the widget!!! Did you forget to set up the conditions for the widget to display? Try checking "Everywhere" and start from there. If you still do not see the widget, there is probably no sidebar on that page. Try adding "?swt-scope-test" to the end of your page's URL (e.g. http://www.myblog.com/?swt-scope-test) - if you have at least one tabbed section widget activated and you do not see "Section Widget Scope Test" on your page, there is probably something wrong with your WordPress theme.

Make sure you have set a correct CSS scope in the Section Widget settings page (under the Appearance admin menu). Let us detect that setting for you if you are not sure what to do - simply click on the help link besides the text field and follow the instructions there. On the other hand, if your widget looks stretched out, try checking the "Height fix" checkbox in the settings page (especially if you're using the default WordPress theme). Finally, make sure you have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Yes. However, please beware some shortcodes (for example our [conditional custom fields][1] shortcodes) will only work when an individual pages or posts is being displayed, not on an archive pages. This is because they require information (e.g. custom fields) that are attached to individual pages/posts.

By default, no. But if you really want to do that, [there is a shortcode for that][2]. ;)

Yep.

See below.

It depends. Unless the user who edited the widget has the [unfiltered_html][3] capabilities (this means Administrators and Editors on the default settings), all "non-safe" HTML elements (particularly JavaScript) will be stripped.

When checked, your widget's title will be displayed before the its content just like the regular text widget. When unchecked, the title will be hidden which gives you more flexibility if you need to style the widget manually.

If you have access to the theme CSS files, you can wrap your content in an id (or give it a CSS class), and then style it from there. Otherwise, you can always use inline CSS. For information on styling the tabbed widget, please refer to the [jQuery UI theming guide][4]. The themes are taking up too much space! You can remove any unneeded themes but deleting the corresponding folder in the "section-widget/themes" folder. However, please do not delete the "Base" theme.