Title: GET Custom Content Author: bgentry Published: November 19, 2013 Last modified: January 11, 2015 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/get-custom-content.svg) # GET Custom Content By [bgentry](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bgentry/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/get-custom-content.1.1.1.zip) * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-custom-content/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-custom-content/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-custom-content/#installation) * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-custom-content/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-custom-content/) ## Description This plugin allows you to create custom content that appears in your WordPress posts depending on query variables in the URL. For example, appending \”?customer=yes\” to your URL can make the sidebar display the phrase \”We love our customers!\” while\”? customer=notyet\” can make the sidebar display \”Become our customer today!\” The plugin includes a shortcode for insterting custom content into a page or post, as well as a widget for adding custom content to sidebars. How to use: After installing the plugin, you will find “GET Custom Content” in your dashboard menu. There are just a few steps: 1. Create a Variable. To create a variable, click “Custom Content Variables” under the “GET Custom Content” section of the Dashboard menu. Type a name for your variable, then click ‘add new variable.’ 2. Create values for the variable Click “New Value” under the “GET Custom Content” section of the Dashboard menu. Type the name of your value in the post title field, and type some content. Then select the variable to which this value belongs in the “GET Custom Content Variables” box on the editor screen. If you want this particular value to be the default value, and therefore be shown when the variable is not defined in the URL, click the check box in the “Make this the Default?” box on the editor screen. It will appear if the variable is not defined in the URL (such as www.example.com) or when the variable is defined but the value does not exist (such as www.example.com?variable=nonexistent) It’s up to you to make sure you don’t set up multiple values to be the default. If more than one value is set as the default, then whichever one is first when WordPress asks for the default will be shown as the default. 1. Use the widget or shortcode to ask the site to load the custom content There are two ways to display custom content. One is to use the GET Custom Content widget to drop it in the sidebar. The second method allows you to load custom content in a page’s content using the shortcode, format [bg_gcc variable=”variableName”] 2. Create a URL. Just take a normal URL for your post or page, and add ?variablename =valuename and give this URL to people whom you would like to see your custom content. Detailed instructions are here: http://bryangentry.us/get-custom-content-wordpress- plugin/ ### How can I override the default content defined for a particular variable combination? The default content for the variable is displayed when the variable is not defined in the URL, or it is defined with a value that does not exist. If you want to override this content in some place, use the same pattern for overriding a variable/value combination (see answer to previous question), but use “default” instead of the value name. Example: -value-default I want this shown instead of the default! -value-default ### How can I insert the URL’s query variable value into my site? Sometimes you may want to use value in the user’s URL to display something on your page. For example, you might want the link example.com/my-page/?username=Gretel to display “Greetings, Gretel!” on the page. To do this, enter a description for the particular variable (in this case, username) back on the screen where you can add or edit GET Custom Content Variables. Include _VALUE_ in the spot where you want the value to be filled in. For example, you could type: Greetings, _VALUE_. ## Installation Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page. ## FAQ How can I override the content for a specific variable / value combination? If you have created a variable and some values for it, you can override the default content using the shortcode. To do this, after you enter the shortcode [bg_gcc variable=”variablename”], type[/ bg_gcc]. Between these codes, type values like this: -value-valuename Here is content to override the pre-defined content! -value-valuename New in version 1.1, you can override the content for a variable/value combination in the widget using the same text that you would use in the shortcode method. Just enter this text in the appropriate textarea in the widget form. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “GET Custom Content” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ bgentry ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bgentry/) [Translate “GET Custom Content” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/get-custom-content) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/get-custom-content/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/get-custom-content/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/get-custom-content/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/get-custom-content/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog 1.1.1 – Fixed one error. 1.1 – Added ability to set a default value for each variable. Default can be set with a meta box, overridden in shortcode. Also added ability to override pre-defined content in the widget. Cleaned up a lot of code. 1.0 – Plugin invented! ## Meta * Version **1.1.1** * Last updated **11 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.1.42** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-custom-content/) * Tags * [custom content](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-content/)[urls](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/urls/) * [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-custom-content/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-custom-content/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-custom-content/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ bgentry ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bgentry/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-custom-content/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? 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