Description
FREE, Easily Customizable DEMO, Informative, On-page friendly Sidebar Widgets. In these Widgets Links Pointing to the Articles are Google AdSense friendly. User can read these Articles using 200+ Global Languages. All Articles showing under these Widgets are Family Safe.
After a Successful Installation you don’t need to do anything, the Plugin “i20 Sidebar Widgets” will automatically fit in your theme. Using Settings, you can Set the number of records you want to display or border and height of these Sidebar Widgets. By default the plugin Comes with 100% Width. You can use this in Page Header, Left or Right Side Panel or inside Paragraphs. Currently we are supporting 28 popular Categories with more than each of 400+ of high quality Articles. Depending upon your niche from plugin settings you can select which Categories Articles you need to show in Sidebar.
Technical Details
These Widgets are completely Dynamic, No more we are Storing or Retrieving DATA to or from your WP Database. Fetching DATA from SSD Storage xml feeds. Each feed is with 120 records. Total 28 feeds (Categories). Using 1 random PHP function we are Choosing 1 feed from 28 feeds then using 2nd random PHP function we are displaying top 20 records. Make Sure in every page refresh for 90% cases these Widgets will display unique records to the user.
SEO Features
This WP Plugin is SEO friendly. By adding this Widgets to your Post, Page or Taxonomies pages additional 2900+ Words will add to the page (which will Change for every page refresh). Each row of this Sidebar Widgets comes with 145 Words Description. If you are displaying 20 rows then 2900+ Words will On-page.
You can display these Sidebar Widgets using Shortcode [i20_Sidebar_Widgets].
Installation
- Go to
Plugins
in the Admin menu. - Click on the button
Add new
. - Search for
i20 Sidebar Widgets
and click ‘Install Now’ or click on theupload
link to uploadi20-sidebar-widgets.zip
- Click on
Activate plugin
. - Go to Settings > i20 Sidebar Widgets. Copy the Shortcode.
- Under Widgets drag a Text Control to your Sidebar panel. Paste the Shortcode. Save.
- Clear Site Cache and refresh the Page in browser.
FAQ
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How to Disable this Plugin?
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Use standard Plugin overview page in WordPress admin section and deactivate it or rename plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/i20-sidebar-widgets over FTP access.
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Yes.
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Will it Slow my Site down?
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No, it won’t. It’s only loaded on the pages where Shortcode added.
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Can I select all 28 Categories?
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Yes, by selecting each checkbox you are saying our algorithm to fetch its related Category xml feed. While selecting multiple feeds for each page refresh randomly 1 category feed will select from the array of xml feeds.
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What will happen if I am not selecting any Category?
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By not selecting any Category Widgets will fetch general feed.
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What is the shortcode to integrate this plugin?
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[i20_Sidebar_Widgets]
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Can I use these Widgets multiple times in a Single page?
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Yes using the Shortcode you can use these widgets multiple times in a Single page but it was recommended not to use multiple times. Because the Setting panel will work Same for all Widgets. For multiple use width is not an issue as it set to 100% but height and record count will same for all widgets. Make Sure during page load multiple widgets will not show Similar records.
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This plugin comes under which License?
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GPLv2 or later.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“i20 Sidebar Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate “i20 Sidebar Widgets” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
2.1.3: January 30, 2025
- Updated feed Image Size from 80x60px to 300x185px.
2.1.3: November 28, 2024
- Initially our xml feeds are with 60 records each from Database for any specific category. Updated to 120 records.
2.1.3: November 27, 2024
- Fetching all User selected feeds url using random function from PHP. Then storing all the records from each feed to an array. Applying random function to the Array elements before displaying to the widgets.
2.1.3: October 30, 2024
- WordPress 6.5 and PHP 8.2 compatibility.
1.0.0: October 10, 2024
- Birthday of i20 Sidebar Widgets.