
Recently I have been looking for a plugin, that could add a dynamic to my sidebar. What I mean is that I wanted some widgets to be visible for certain type of my web traffic and on certain pages.
Certain Widgets on Certain Pages
I have found what I have been looking for – this plugin is called Dynamic Widgets. It, actually, allows you to modify visibility of your sidebar widgets whatever you like. And I wanted to display “text” widget, which shows 3 best articles, only on single post pages.
Why?
I have modified my front page so that it could focus my web traffic’s attention on certain places: “Featured post” and “Latest stuff”, which supposes them to click on those links. I do not want to have too many things to “check right now” on my front page.
In this case it acts against you.
But displaying “3 Best Articles” widget on single post pages makes readers take a little look at them (because they have attractive pictures) while reading solid texts. And after reading a post or (if they did not like it) while reading, they may switch to “3 Best Articles”, which plays a positive role.
I reduce my blog’s bounce rate and extend average time on site!
Certain Widgets for Certain Web Traffic
WordPress plugin Dynamic Widgets also allows you to display certain sidebar widgets for certain web traffic.
Widgets could be displayed only for:
- Administrator
- Editor
- Author
- Contributor
- Subscriber
- Anonymous
… or for several types of visitors at once, while others cannot see your certain widgets.
Dynamic Sidebar Has Even More Advantages!
- You can make some special note for your subscribers on your sidebar, which is cool, because your subscribers want to be unique and to be noticed;
- You can run some certain poll specially for your subscribers… or for contributors. You can, actually, run different polls for different types of traffic! Isn’t that great?
- You can display your ads only for anonymous web traffic, which shows some sort of respect for your readers;
- What about a special message or several rules for editors? You can do that as well. It saves your time;
- What about a widget, that displays “Top Authors” only for authors or “Top Contributors” only for contributors?
- Any more ideas? (I think there could be more great types of purposes!)
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Oh.. I almost forgot – the link: Install Dynamic Widgets plugin.
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This is a pretty cool widget. This reminds me of the greet box. They have different messages depending about where the visitor came from. If someone is coming from Digg or Blog Engage the greeting will say Hey Digger, or Hey Blog Engager…I think you might want to combine the two tools and see what happens.
I’ll see if Brian can add this plugin to the Blogging Wire.
I have a question for you, how can you tell if you are using too many plugins? I hear that is slows down the page load time, but I don’t know how many it takes to make up “too many”.
Thank for showing me this plugin.
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Well.. That’s a great idea for another post. And I think I have the proper answer, that I have accidentally found JUST today!
This is definitely some kind of a mysticism -)
Since I’m still looking plugin that fit to my blog, I’ll try this one :)
Thanks for sharing bro!
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