About this plugin
This plugin provides similar functionality to the Drupal Side Content module.
It enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content
to it when editing a page.
This enables you to extend the content of the page into the sidebar.
Suppose, for example, you have a set of pages about people in your company. You could use a side content
widget to add a biography for each of them, or a photo, or to list their favourite pizza toppings.
You can use the plugin without any template changes at all, but it does provide a simple API so you can test for the presence of side content widgets and adjust your templates accordingly.
7 of the plugin, it supports the WP shortcode API. There is also an extra add-on plugin which provides the same support for NextGEN Gallery shortcodes (development sponsored by Comunicrea s. n.
c. ).
75 fixes a bug affecting side content widgets with names containing characters other than lowercase alphanumerics. A new contributed extension provides integration with the qTranslate plugin.
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API
Use the following code to test for the presence of side content widgets:
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Use the following code to test for the presence of a particular side content widget called ‘widget name’:
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The plugin defines a filter, ‘side_content’, which can be used to preprocess side content widgets before display.