Description
Context Manager makes your site behave differently depending on the current user’s context. Using the simple point-and-click admin pages, there are four different ways your site can react:
- Include and exclude CSS and JavaScript files
- Changing the behaviour of menu items
- Hiding widgets in sidebars
- Adding extra classes to the
<body>tag.
The plugin supersedes Menu Rules
Example usage
A website has e-commerce shopping functionality driven by a custom post type called ‘products’. There’s an archive page called ‘shop’ that lists products and is linked to in the main navigation menu.
A user visits ‘shop’ and the menu item becomes ‘active’, but when they click through to an individual product, the menu item loses its state. The user becomes lost.
- Install the Context Manager plugin
- Add a new context rule
- Give it a meaningful name in the title field. This is just for administration purposes
- In the conditions field enter
is_singular( 'product' ) - Choose Emulate current page as a child but do not create a menu item. as the menu rule
- Find your products page in the menu dropdown
On the product page, there are irrelevant widgets that distract the user from making a purchase.
- Hide irrelevant widgets under the widgets reaction
The whole shop section requires its own colour scheme, but there’s no common class that ties all the pages together.
- Enter
shop-sectionclass name in the body class reaction. Or alternatively, register another stylesheet usingwp_register_style()in you theme’sfunctions.php. - Create
Remember to click publish when you’re ready to save.
Have a look at screenshots to see the above setup in action.
Support
If you’re stuck, ask me for help on Twitter.
Screenshots
An example setup for a products section in a online shop 
CSS and JavaScript reactions
Installation
- Download and unzip the folder from the WordPress plugins repository
- Upload the context-manager folder into to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Open the ‘Appearance’ menu item and click the ‘Context Rules’ link
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Changelog
1.2.0
- [Bugfix]: disabled assets reaction which triggered errors in 3.6. No feasible workaround found yet
- [Bugfix]: added conditional checks into widgets reaction
1.1.5
- [Bugfix]: menu_reaction property not being set in child page and inactive parent menu reactions
1.1.4
- [Bugfix]: Some environments were triggering a fatal error related to html() due to an action being added to a hook too late
1.1.3
- [Bugfix]: Asset reaction generating a global site error if not logged in
1.1.2
- [Bugfix]: Major issue that generated an error when adding or editing a context rule
1.1.1
- [Bugfix]: Errors in widget reaction when site has orphaned widgets
1.1
- [Added]: Assets reaction
- [Bugfix]: get_rules() using incorrect meta_query parameter
- [Bugfix]: PHP 5.4 fatal errors
1.0.2
- [Bugfix]: Body class and widget reactions caused an error when no rules were set up
1.0.1
- [Bugfix]: Invalid foreach warning when no rules were added in get_rules()