CUNY Academic Commons

- What's the name of the plugin/theme?

Custom Sidebars

- [plugins] In a few words, what does it do?

Allows to create your own widgetized areas and custom sidebars, and select what sidebars to use for each post or page.

- How is the plugin/theme different from what's already provided on the Commons?

Don't think we have this.

- What's the potential impact? Who will use it?

Anyone who wants a custom sidebar

- Who initially made the request? [sometimes Matt is passing along requests from members, sometimes suggesting something he found himself]

JITP journal

- Who is the plugin author?

marquex - http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/marquex/

- Say a little bit about the release history and popularity of the plugin. How many times has it been downloaded? When was it last updated? [The idea behind these last two questions is that I'm more likely to look favorably on plugins that are less likely to be abandoned]

48,751 downloads, 39 reviews - 5 star average

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/