Widgets are very powerful and are extremely easy to use. However their usage is limited to the widget ready areas. What if you want to embed widget in a Page or Post?
In this post I will cover a plugin which allows you to embed any widget in a Page or Post. The plugin AMR Shortcode Widget. Its a very popular plugin with 4.9 rating and has over 100,000 downloads. Here are the instructions to use it
Install and Activate
Activating the plugin will add a new “Shortcode Sidebar“. This sidebar will hold the widgets and their settings. These widgets can then be embedded via a shortcode. Refer to the following screenshot
Adding a Widget to Page Content
Drag the widgets you want to embed to the Shortcodes Sidebar. These widgets can then be called inside any page or a post. Here are a few ways to call the widgets
A. Display Widgets by Name
Use [do_widget widgetname] code to add a widget by name. So if you want to display a text widget use this code [do_widget text].
It will display all text widgets contained in the Shortcode Sidebar.
B. Display Widgets by ID
Use [do_widget id=widgetid] to display a widget by ID.
If you want to display a specific widget then this approach will be the best.
C. Display All Widgets in Shortcode Sidebar
You can also display all the widgets contained in Shortcode Sidebar.
Simply use [do_widget_area] shortcode.
Points to Note
The plugin also provide a lot options to customize the widget, For Example
- One can hide the title by using title=flase. Here is the code [do_widget pages title=false]
- One can wrap the title in a html tag. [do_widget pages title=h3] will wrap h3 tag around the widget title
- Once can wrap the complete widget in a HTML Tag. [do_widget "tag cloud" wrap=aside] will wrap the widget in an “aside” html tag.
- One can also add a custom css class to the widget. [do_widget widgetname class=mycssclass] will add the mycssclass to the widget. You can then target this css class to style the widget
Thats it. As you can see , adding a widget to content is really easy. I hope our users will find this tutorial useful.
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