In this post I will cover 2 plugins which can be used to conditionally display widgets on specific pages. There are a lot of use cases for conditionally displaying widgets. For example if you want to display the login widget on particular pages, then you can do so easily with these plugins

Using the Display Widget Plugin (link)

The Display Widget Plugin is immensely popular. It has been downloaded half a million times and has rating of 4.8.

Using the plugin is quite straight forward. Just Install and activate the plugin.

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In this Post I will show how you can quickly change the background color of a WordPress Text Widget.  Here are the instructions

Change the Background Color of all Text Widget

Use the following CSS rule to customize the background color of all text widgets.

.sidebar .widget_text { background-color:yellow; }

This rule will ensure that all text widgets have yellow as their background color. You can use the Simple Custom CSS plugin to add this style rule to your wordpress site

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In this tutorial I will share a simple technique to add custom JavaScript to a specific Page in WordPress. The best part is that we don’t need to make any edits to the templates files or the functions.php file.

The Concept

The Concept behind this tutorial is quite simple. We will make use of Custom Fields to add custom js. Here is what we will be doing

• We will first create a custom field to hold the JavaScript code
• We will then simply output the value of custom field on the respective Page

Simple, isn’t it? Lets start!!

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While WordPress has successfully emerged as the most popular Content Management System (CMS), it still performs poorly in the search department. If you are using the default search feature in your WordPress website, your visitors might not get the appropriate results. For that reason, most WordPress websites rely on Google to provide the search facility.

In today’s tutorial, I will show you how to add Google site search to your WordPress website. After going through this tutorial, you will learn how to –

1. Add Google site search without using a plugin,
2. Add Google site search by using a plugin.

Let’s see how to do it without using a plugin.

Adding Google Site Search without Plugin

In order to add the Google search feature in our website without using a plugin, we will use Google’s Custom Search Engine (CSE). Here are the steps.

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A lot of Service Business like Spa , Salon , Restaurants etc.  display Opening / Working Hours on their website. In this Post I will share a simple snippet to add Working / Business Hours to the WordPress SideBar.

We will utilize the all powerful WordPress Text Widget to display the business Hours.  Since the Text Widget Supports HTML , it is a matter of pasting an html snippet to display Business Hours.

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