Title: Sane Widget Sidebar Management
Author: Justin Sternberg
Published: <strong>Eost 4, 2013</strong>
Last modified: Eost 13, 2013

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Sane Widget Sidebar Management

 By [Justin Sternberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtsternberg/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management.zip)

 * [Details](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/#installation)
 * [Development](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/)

## Description

If you have ever needed to accommodate a client’s request to have separate widget
areas for many sections of the site, you understand the need for this plugin.

This plugin alleviates the pain of having many sidebar widget areas by hiding all
but one (that is selectable via a dropdown). Gone are the days of trying to drag
a new widget from the left column to a widget area at the bottom of the right column(
ugh!).

There is no configuration for this plugin.

Contribute on [github](https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * New and hawt.
 * [[
 * Old and busted.
 * [[
 * Widget area scrolls with you. No more trying to drag outside of the viewing area.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `sane-widget-sidebar-management` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[But on 4.4 work great.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/but-on-44-work-great/)󠁿

 [1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/f4tal1st/) Gwengolo 3, 2016

Maybe it is don’t work on a 4.2.2., but on 4.4. it is work great. Thanks!

 [ Read all 9 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Sane Widget Sidebar Management” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Justin Sternberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtsternberg/)
 *   [ webdevstudios ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdevstudios/)

[Translate “Sane Widget Sidebar Management” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sane-widget-sidebar-management/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sane-widget-sidebar-management/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sane-widget-sidebar-management/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sane-widget-sidebar-management/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.1

 * Use appropriate hooks (props [kucrut](https://github.com/kucrut)), and update
   use of “sidebar” to “widget area” (props [jakept](https://wordpress.org/support/profile/jakept))

#### 1.0.0

 * Launch.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.6.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[sidebar](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [sidebars](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebars/)[widget](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
   [widgets](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  7 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Justin Sternberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtsternberg/)
 *   [ webdevstudios ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdevstudios/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sane-widget-sidebar-management/)