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Pages In Widgets

by Jayden Major · Uncategorized

Pages In Widgets is a simple plugin that allows you to insert a the content of a page created in the normal WordPress pages interface into a widget.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.23, 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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 17/100
Rating quality 62/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2368 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+28% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

253

now · peak 334

26730d 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

Pages In Widgets · #3785 you Disable Author Pages · #2998 Remove noreferrer · #3135 Change Background Co · #9299

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

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.

89per 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

6.7y ago

latest release · v1.9.3

18

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.9.3 · 6.7y ago1.9.2 · 6.7y ago1.9.1 · 6.7y ago1.9 · 6.7y ago1.8 · 7.1y ago1.7.3 · 7.5y ago1.7.2 · 10.0y ago1.7.1 · 10.3y ago1.7 · 10.3y ago1.6.1 · 10.5y ago1.5 · 10.5y ago1.6 · 10.5y ago1.4 · 10.8y ago1.0 · 10.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.9 89%
v1.7 8.9%
v1.8 1.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.4K

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

Install history · since 2015-05-27 · 1,444 observations

3KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
1.9.4
Last updated
6.5y ago
Added
2015-05-13 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
5.3.23
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. teodoropiccinni
    6.2y ago

    Very good job, simple, light and functional. The only issue is that it is not working anymore with WordPress 5.4.2 🙁

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  2. rrus
    6.3y ago

    Only Title appears, and then nothing. Page is simple text with few images. <div class=”homepage_section”> </div> in between blank. Does not load page at all.

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  3. bcruz9175
    6.4y ago

    This plugin works perfectly because sometimes you just can’t get those specific sections/widgets on the homepage looking the way you want, niice 😎 I actually combined mine with the Page Builder by SiteOrigin plugin to section the pages out for that part, and of course this Pages In Widgets plugin to get the page/section/widget right where I need it. This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by bcruz9175.

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  4. harunalrashyid
    8.2y ago

    this plugin perfectly insert the pages to widget, works best with footer widget for me. So, i can managed the content with favourite page builder.

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  5. Zurd
    8.6y ago

    Easy to use, working fine!

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  6. wwwolf
    9.6y ago

    This is a great plugin, and made it much easier for me to create complex page structures yet still provide a usable update mechanism for my client. Love it. I did have a problem for some months with this plugin apparently breaking other things and preventing other shortcodes from running (because disabling it or using an old version appeared to fix the presenting problem) and Jayde was helpful, letting me know each time a new version came out and asking if that fixed it. It turns out it must have been a ‘multi-factorial’ as, with recent updates to other plugins and WordPress itself, the problem has gone away.

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  7. Anonymous
    10.6y ago

    Simply fantastic! I have been looking for something like this for days

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  8. naweedshams
    10.9y ago

    Works perfect! I’m just glad I searched for it. Don’t be fooled by low download count.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.9.4 Release Data: March 6, 2020 * Feature – Include the option to sho private posts in the posts in pages widget 1.9.4
  2. Version 1.9.3 Release Date: December 17, 2019 * Bug Fix – Fixed an issue were the output of the post title would be an h4 even when configured otherwise. – This bug weas only posts and not for pages. 1.9.3
  3. Version 1.9.2 Release Date: December 13, 2019 * Bug Fix – Fixed an issue were the image output wasn’t being output. 1.9.2
  4. Version 1.9.1 Release Date: December 12, 2019 * Hot Fix – Bug that would have required to open the widget and save. Re saveing widgets no longer required. 1.9.1
  5. Version 1.9 Release Date: December 12, 2019 * Added Filters for both content and images. * Thanks to @kzeni for provideing this update. 1.9
  6. Version 1.8 Release Date: July 31, 2019 * Added ability to change heading Type. * Fixed some activation issues after updateing. 1.8

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 63 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Swedish 90%
English (Australia) 70%
English (Canada) 70%
English (New Zealand) 70%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 70%
English (UK) 64%
Hebrew 64%
Czech 22%
French (France) 22%
Spanish (Spain) 22%
German 19%
Chinese (China) 12%
Russian 12%
Danish 9%
Dutch 9%
Finnish 9%
Hungarian 9%
Italian 9%
Japanese 9%
Persian 9%
Portuguese (Brazil) 9%
Portuguese (Portugal) 9%
Romanian 9%
Slovak 9%

Plus 39 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-10 4K+ → 3K+ down after 479 days in tier
  2. 2025-01-16 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-15 4K+ → 5K+ up after 9 days in tier
  4. 2025-01-06 5K+ → 4K+ down after 399 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-04 6K+ → 5K+ down after 309 days in tier
  6. 2023-01-29 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-01-28 6K+ → 7K+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2023-01-23 7K+ → 6K+ down

Competes with

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Pages In Widgets: 3K+ active installs, 4.6★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/pages-in-widgets