Genesis Simple Sidebars

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1. ★★★★★ Britlish

   6.7y ago

   On a Genesis site, Britlish.com, the plugin works exactly as described right out of the box.

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2. ★★★★★ biberkopf

   6.7y ago

   … but it seems to only support child pages in one layer (1. generation). Sub-sub-pages are not supported when “child pages” are clicked.

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3. ★★★★★ davidkonicek

   6.9y ago

   You can create a sidebar, but it won’t get added to the page.

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4. ★★★★★ mafreprezent

   7.2y ago

   Really wish I could give a better review. After a lot of testing for plugin conflicts, this simply does not do anything. No matter what I tried, I could make the sidebars but they would never show up on the page. I’d select the new sidebar, add some widgets to it just in case, but only my original “Primary Sidebar” would show up. When I go into Customize, it only shows and lets me edit the primary sidebar. Tested on multiple pages. I provided screen shots and as much as I could in the support area and am not making this review until after I waited for a month with very little reply from support until things just went cold. It’s been a week since my last poke on the post. I understand it seems to work for a lot of people, just not us.

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5. ★★★★★ hello7there

   8.2y ago

   Common StudioPress! What’s gong on here? Your company is highly successful. I expected more! Show some professionalism.

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6. ★★★★★ daguru69

   8.6y ago

   Thank you so much for making this easy. I burned way too many hours messing around with this nonsense in codelandia.

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7. ★★★★★ Jan444

   9.6y ago

   Excellent stuff, works perfect and it’s easy for clients (and for me) to manage the different custom sidebars. Big thanks,

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8. ★★★★★ Tara Jacobsen

   10.4y ago

   I spent about 10 minutes getting this plugin installed and set up. SO incredibly easy and now running custom sidebars on my site. Uses the widget function which I am super familiar with in the Genesis ecosystem.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.2.3 Prevent a PHP fatal error under PHP 8.x if incomplete sidebar data exists. Fix a PHP deprecation warning under PHP 8.x. Fix Genesis download link in admin notice if a Genesis child theme is not active. 2.2.3
2. — Version 2.2.2 Fix overlapping of sidebar selector in editor. 2.2.2
3. — Version 2.2.1 Allow sidebars to show in the WordPress Posts page. 2.2.1
4. — Version 2.2.0 Fixed coding standards errors. Introduced coding standards validation. 2.2.0
5. — Version 2.1.0 Rewrite based on new plugin boilerplate. Make ID field readonly, rather than disabled. Add header widget area support. Allow for empty ID (auto-generate ID from name). Allow for only alphanumeric characters in ID. Use Wo 2.1.0
6. — Version 2.0.3 Fix warnings and notices. 2.0.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.3

Translated into 84 languages, 9 at 90% or more

Plus 60 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-11-30 20K+ → 10K+ down after 741 days in tier
2. 2022-11-20 30K+ → 20K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Genesis Simple Hooks 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 4 shared tags B
• G Genesis Visual Hook Guide 700+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags D
• G Genesis Post Teasers 90+ installs · 3.3★ · 4 shared tags F
• Genesis Connect for WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• Genesis Simple Menus 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A
• G Genesis Featured Widget Amplified 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D

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Genesis Simple Sidebars: 10K+ active installs, 4.4★ (27 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/genesis-simple-sidebars