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Disable Widgets

by Jan Štětina · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 8 other plugins · 200+ installs across the portfolio →

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Disable unused sidebar widgets.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

4.5K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+87%

56

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3049 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+87% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

56

now · peak 80

5630d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Disable Widgets · #24212 you Widget Disable · #1477 SpiceBox · #1262 Desert Companion · #1423

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.9Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

8.4y ago

latest release · v2.0

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0 · 8.4y ago1.0 · 14.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2016-02-12 · 1,384 observations

30Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
2.0
Last updated
8.4y ago
Added
2012-07-09 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ intuitart
    10.5y ago

    This helps you clean up the clutter when looking at your available widgets. Just show what you want to use or support. I was deciding whether to move my own disable widgets utility out to a plugin when I searched and found this. It does a better job. Here are some scenarios I went through: * It manages all widgets, not just core WordPress widgets. * Disable a widget and it remembers so you can come back to re-enable. * Deactivate the same widget at it’s source, a plugin, and it disappears from this list. * Reactivate at it’s source and it not only reappears in this list, but this plugin remembers that it was disabled. All is good. Why would I want to maintain my own plugin now?

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  2. ★★★★★ Steven
    11.0y ago

    Of course I think this is a five start plugin!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

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

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-03-22 40+ → 30+ down after 121 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-21 50+ → 40+ down after 57 days in tier
  3. 2025-09-25 40+ → 50+ up after 8 days in tier
  4. 2025-09-17 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-09-16 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2025-09-14 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-09-13 40+ → 50+ up after 28 days in tier
  8. 2025-08-16 50+ → 40+ down after 672 days in tier

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