Advanced Custom Fields – Widget Relationship Field add-on

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1. ★★★★★ funsella

   12.1y ago

   If you are using ACF to build/customise your theme this plugin is a must have. It takes the pain out of organising what widgets you want to display on a post or page. I love it and its now going to be a part of all my builds. A big thanks to the author djbokka for creating and sharing this.

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2. ★★★★★ keiju

   13.4y ago

   This works as intended and better than the competition. I tried 3 other plugins to get the ‘choose the widgets in every post’ functionality and only this worked as I wanted to. Remember that you need Advanced Custom Fields for this to work but you should have that plug-in also because it´s also so good.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-07-10 600+ → 500+ down after 168 days in tier
2. 2026-01-23 700+ → 600+ down after 119 days in tier
3. 2025-09-26 800+ → 700+ down after 58 days in tier
4. 2025-07-30 700+ → 800+ up after 104 days in tier
5. 2025-04-17 800+ → 700+ down after 247 days in tier
6. 2024-08-13 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
7. 2024-08-11 800+ → 900+ up after 3 days in tier
8. 2024-08-08 900+ → 800+ down after 344 days in tier

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).

• Widgets for Google Reviews 900K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• Blocksy Companion 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Black Studio TinyMCE Widget 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Table of Contents Plus – Automatic Table of Contents for Posts & Pages 200K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
• Widget Importer & Exporter 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO 100K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B

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Advanced Custom Fields – Widget Relationship Field add-on: 500+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-custom-fields-widget-relationship-field-add-on