Popping Sidebars and Widgets for WordPress - 1

Unlimited Popping Sidebars and Widgets for WordPress

Create popping custom responsive layouts with sidebars and widgets in just a few clicks. Choose from variety of overlays, positioning, page visibility, active period, open/close events, custom styling, custom sidebars and much more.

3 types of Overlay – Full Bar (push and over site content), Side Box (push and over site content), Popup/Lightbox
Positioning – Header, Footer, Left, Right, Popup
Custom Responsive Layouts in your Overlay
Create Unlimited Custom Sidebars
Any Sidebar and Widget in your Overlay
Visibility for any set of pages, page templates, posts , categories, tags, archives, custom post types, taxonomies, user roles, WPML languages, WooCommerce, bbPress, BuddyPress
Set Multiple Activation Periods
Set Open/Close events
Custom Styling via an interface in the back-end
Easy and Intuitive administration that fits WordPress core design
Support and Updates

How It Works

Create Sidebars – as many as you need
Set up Your Overlay – choose type, positioning, page visibility, active period, open/close events, styling, etc.
Create Layout and Insert Sidebars – just a few clicks with the OTW Grid Manager

3 Types of Overlay

Full Bars – Header, Footer, Left or Right Positioning, Push or Over site content, Fixed or Scrolling with the Page, Slide or Fade Animation
Side Boxes – Header, Footer, Left or Right Positioning, Fixed or Scrolling with the Page, Slide or Fade Animation
Popups / Lightboxes – 7 animations, Overlay and Popup Styling

Open & Close Events

All types of overlays can be activated for different type of Open and Close Event.

Open Events – on page load, on page load with delay, after a number of page views, after a number of seconds spent on the site, on exit intent, WooCommerce abandoners, scroll/click to an id or class or % of the page, trigger from a link, button or WordPress menu
Close Event – close until next page load, show/hide button (custom labels, HTML and icons, show button horizontal or vertical text alignment) , close for number of page loads, close for number of days, No close button, Close on scroll to a css id or class

Multiple Activation Periods

Set up as many activation periods as you need. The overlay will be visible on your site for the periods you create. Setup start and end dates, days of the week, hours of the day.

Visibility Settings

All types of overlays can be set to be visible on any set of pages on your site.

Posts and taxonomies – Pages, posts , categories, tags, custom post types, custom taxonomies
Templates – Page templates, template hierarchy, taxonomy archives, user roles
Plugin support – WPML languages, WooCommerce, bbPress, BuddyPress, etc.

Unlimited Custom Styling

Style your overlays however you want.

Theme styles – The plugin will follow your theme styling for the main html tags.
Styling Interface – Styling via the interface is available for: Shadows, Borders, Rounded Corners, Background color or pattern image, Show/Hide Buttons, Animations, Paddings.
Custom CSS – You can further style by doing some custom CSS. Unique and custom classes are available for all overlays.

Unlimited Number of Sidebars

This plugin will allow you to create unlimited number of custom sidebars that you will be able to place in your overlays. Once a sidebar is created it will be available in Appearance -> Widgets section just like any other sidebar. Newly created sidebars can have vertical or horizontal widget alignment.

Vertical and Horizontal widget alignment

Vertical – This is the default WordPress widget alignment. The widgets in sidebars (widget areas) with vertical alignment are arranged in a column bellow each other.
Horizontal – The widgets in sidebars (widget areas) with horizontal alignment will be arranged in a row next to each other (lined up on the same line). Such widget areas are fluid and very flexible. The widget area width will be equally divided between all widgets in this widget area.

You can read more on Horizontal or vertical widget alignment.

Custom Responsive Layouts

Creating custom responsive layouts in your overlays is just a few clicks job with the OTW Grid Manager. No coding is required. It is all done in a very easy to use drag & drop interface.

Some of the features of OTW Grid Manager:

Responsive Layouts
Save & Load Templates
Drag & Drop Interface
Clone, Resize, Edit, Delete
Insert Sidebars

Translation/Localization

This plugin comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards. It can be easily translated or localized in other languages different than English. We have included .po/.mo files.

Interface and Performance optimizations

Fits well into the core WordPress design
Optimized performance for large WP installations
Ajax based operations so you don’t have to wait on pages to refresh

Theme Authors and Developers

Include this item in your themes and give your users tons of functionality. All you need is 1 extended license for each theme you put on the market and permission from the author which you get by writing us.

Updates

If you have any suggestions on how to improve this item please let us know! We will seriously consider any suggestion and add it to item’s update list

Ratings

If you like this item please consider rating it as a way of supporting consistent improvements. Note: If you are rating below 5 stars, please contact us. We’ll try to do our best to assist or fix all your points of criticisms.

Changelog

Version 2.21 (06.04.2022)

Fixed: dynamic shortcode fields
Fixed: shortcode dialog button on live preview
Updated: Set default version of sanitized requests

Version 2.19 (17.02.2022)

Fixed: metrics for content width
Fixed: overlay template manage
Updated: core components

Version 2.18 (28.10.2021)

Updated: lang files update
Updated: allow no params
Updated: php8 updates
Updated: latest wp interface changes
Updated: OTW factory
Updated: remove jquery libs
Updated: use trigger to close html areas
Fixed: fix preview
Fixed: message format fix
Fixed: fix html texts
Fixed: small screens fix
Fixed: form latest version

Version 2.17 (23.05.2021)

Updated: Libraries updated to the latest version: flexislider, colorpicker, datetime picker, select2, footable, animate shadow, countdown, quicksand, nivo-lightbox, owl carousel, waypoints
Updated: Translations file
Updated: CSS optimizations
Updated: post and get sanitizing
Updated: option to close the bars by clicking element by id or class
Updated: change checked jquery behaivour
Updated: remove unused code
Updated: strict modes
Updated: file systems
Fixed: special case for scrolling position of fixed content
Fixed: text espapes and refixed libs

Version 2.16 (05.10.2018)

Fixed: fix trailing slash
Added: content width, max and min option
Updated: apply patch for multisite
Updated: OTW api plugin update and verify

Version 2.15 (07.12.2017)

Updated: latest version of otw factory
Fixed: error mode modification

Version 2.14 (23.06.2017)

Updated: WordPress 4.8 compatibility
Updated: OTW core components
Fixed: missing bottom
Fixed: magnific popups custom class applied to avoid conflicts
Fixed: custom timeout for slower pages
Fixed: better scroll

Version 2.13 (17.09.2016)

Updated: deprecated functions update
Updated: https calls to google fonts

Version 2.12 (19.04.2016)

Updated: WordPress 4.5 compatibility
Updated: OTW core componets update

Version 2.11 (09.01.2016)

Added: custom css area in plugin options

Version 2.9 (11.10.2015)

Updated: js shortcodes settings optimization

Version 2.8 (09.10.2015)

Fixed: WPML issues fixed
Fixed: Correct positioning on scrolling/fixed overlays on scrolled page refresh

Version 2.7 (03.07.2015)

Fixed: use component path instead of component url

Version 2.6 (12.06.2015)

Fixed: Close event – Number of days
Fixed: Close effects for background
Updated: Combine js and css libs

Version 2.5 (22.05.2015)

Fixed: Exception for missing selector

Version 2.4 (18.05.2015)

Added: Full bar & Sidebox – no close option
Added: Full bar & Sidebox – close on scroll to css class or id
Fixed: Visibility tabs posts pagination

Version 2.3 (20.04.2015)

Updated: checkbox group align on short texts
Updated: include admin js only when needed
Fixed: hide pattern on small screen
Added: option to repeat the overlay pattern

Version 2.2 (01.03.2015)

Fixed: content scrolling on small screens

Version 2.1 (27.02.2015)

Fixed: conflict with content manager light plugin
Fixed: fix including internal scripts when adding double slash
Fixed: content scrolling on small screens

Version 2.0 (03.12.2014)

Added: Duplicate overlays option
Added: Icons option for show button label
Added: Show button label – Allow HTML
Added: Show button vertical text option
Added: Hide button custom text label
Added: Hide button label icon
Added: Hide button label – Allow HTML.
Added: Show/Hide button text color options
Added: Trigger from a button shortcode option
Added: Full Bar and Side Box – push and over site content positioning
Added: Full Bar background Pattern Option
Added: Light box close event – close on X click, out of the box click or content click
Added: Load Event – WooCommerce abandoners – trigger overlay on exit intent if woocommerce cart has items
Added: Load Event – After Number of Seconds Spent on the Site
Added: Load Event – when the user scrolls down some % of the page content
Added: Load Event – when the user scrolls down to a class name or an ID
Added: Load Event – when the user clicks a tag having a class name or an ID
Added: Option to scroll content for screens smaller than the popup content
Updated: Hide for small screens – separate options to show/hide on large and small screens
Updated: Stay in edit screen after save
Updated: Exit intent to not include the browser’s scroller
Updated: Inline guidelines
Updated: Create multiple Active Periods with lots of flexible optios
Fixed: Small Screens hide overlay content on close issue

Version 1.4 (03.09.2014)

Added: Trigger all overlay types from a menu link

Version 1.3 (28.08.2014)

Added: .po/.mo language files
Added: missing a few text domains

Version 1.2 (26.08.2014)

Fixed: sidebar calls

Version 1.1 (25.08.2014)

Updated: Powered by link

Version 1.0 (25.08.2014)

Initial release

Popping Sidebars and Widgets WordPress Plugin