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Widgets as Shortcodes

Description

Use WordPress default widgets as shortcodes. Insert WordPress default widgets anywhere in your site – page/post editor, sidebars, template files. No coding is required. It is all done in a nice and easy interface.

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WordPress default widgets

  • Pages
  • Calendar
  • Archive
  • Meta
  • Search
  • Text
  • Categories
  • Recent Posts
  • Recent Comments
  • RSS
  • Tag Cloud

Insert WordPress default widgets Anywhere in your site

Basically WordPress default widgets can be inserted anywhere in your site:

  • Page/post WYSIWYG editor by using the buttion in the editor
  • In sidebars by using the default Widgets themselves
  • In template files by using the WordPress default widgets’ shortcode and WordPress do_shortcode function

Custom styling

If you need to further style an widget you can use the default WordPress classes for those widgets.

Localization/Internationalization

This plugin comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards.

Full version of the plugin

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  • Custom Responsive Layouts – Build in Seconds
  • Front-end Editor – Edit your layouts and content in the front-end of your site
  • 40+ Shortcodes with add/edit Interface, Custom and Imported Shortcodes
  • Insert Shortcodes Anywhere – Layouts, Page Editor, Sidebars, Template files
  • Insert Sidebars Anywhere – Layouts, Page Editor, Template files
  • WordPress Widgets Anywhere – Layouts, Page Editor, Template files
  • Content Sidebars
  • Support and Updates
  • Zero Coding Required

Screenshots

  • WYSIWYG page/post editor button
  • Front-end

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

  • OTW Shortcode
  • Widgets as Shortcodes

Installation

Please refer to online documentation page for more details.

FAQ

Please refer to online documentation page for more details.

Reviews

September 3, 2016
Tried other solutions. This once is by far the only one working.
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Contributors & Developers

“Widgets as Shortcodes” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.9

  • Updated: Apply Default requests values
  • Fixed: Dynamic shortcode fields

1.8

  • Fixed: Check for registered block editors
  • Updated: Core components

1.7

  • Updated: php8 support
  • Updated: Escape html attributes
  • Updated: Sanitize requests
  • Updated: Use strict mode for javascript
  • Updated: OTW shortcode in block editors

1.6

  • Updated: OTW core updates

1.5

  • Updated: call to google fonts via https

1.4

  • Updated: OTW core updates

1.3

  • Updated: javascript shortcodes settings optimization

1.2

  • Fixed: wp link wrap zindex added

1.1

  • Fixed: Adjustments on the options popup window

1.0

  • Initial release