Simple Page Sidebars

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ twowithink

   1.5y ago

   Excellent and very helpful plugin when you need to quickly create and manage additional sidebars for your pages. Thank you!

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2. ★★★★★ nevertrump

   5.6y ago

   Update: Wrote to the developer, he answered quickly. The issue we are seeing appears not to be with Simple Page Sidebars but rather with WordPress 5.6 Core instead. See the ticket where others are having the same issue. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52073 Absolutely awesome plugin up to 5.5.3. Unfortunately, it no longer works with the latest version of WordPress as of this review (5.6) on 1/8/2021. Hopefully, the developer(s) will have time to upgrade the plugin. In the meantime, those who want to continue to use the plugin will need to downgrade their website to an earlier version. You can use a free plugin called WP Downgrade to do this but it’s a bandaid. This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by nevertrump.

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3. ★★★★★ messanoir

   7.3y ago

   Just wanted to say, that even though the developer is super busy and may not have updated the plugin version specifically for latest WP version, it still works flawlessly. This is a great example of simple coding done right. Nothing that isn’t needed, it just simply works. 🙂

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4. ★★★★★ Anonymous User

   8.5y ago

   This is simple and works great, and no ads! Thank you! Other sidebar plugins put huge, ugly ads right in the middle of the Widgets screen (Custom Sidebars by WPMU-Dev).

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5. ★★★★★ hijack61

   9.0y ago

   thanks guys for hard work, excellent plugin, works like a charme

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6. ★★★★★ y2kdaddio

   9.2y ago

   I can’t find a way to ask a question so I will ask it here. Simple sidebars is awesome…until yesterday when it stopped working for me. Running WordPress 4.8. Added a new webpage, entered a new sidebar name and hit update. Added text to the new sidebar and updated. Here’s the rub. When I try to edit the text for this particular sidebar, it returns me to the Widget Text page. I’m caught in an endless loop. This now occurs with all the sidebars that I have created. I’m stumped…can anyone help? Sorry to put this in the reviews but I found no way to post in the support form.

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7. ★★★★★ deeholzman

   9.5y ago

   Very easy to configure and set up – you can rename sidebars, and this plugin also allows as many widget areas as you want. You can create new widget areas with each sidebar that you want, and put those sidebar widgets on whatever pages that you want. Here’s how to rename a sidebar: Go to ‘All Pages’, and find the row one of the pages that uses the sidebar you want to change the name of, then look in that row’s “sidebar” column. There you’ll see the name of the sidebar; select that sidebar link and it will take you to an Edit Sidebar page where you can change the title. To delete a sidebar: Just remove it from any page that it has been assigned to. Very handy plugin and saves lots of time from having to register sidebars in functions.php.

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8. ★★★★★ Thomas Dufranne

   9.5y ago

   Works like a charm !

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.1 Removed bundled language files in favor of WordPress.org language packs. 1.2.1
2. — Version 1.2.0 Transferred to Cedaro. Updated the Widget Area class constructor to prevent deprecation notices in WP 4.3+. 1.2.0
3. — Version 1.1.8 Added Spanish translation. 1.1.8
4. — Version 1.1.7 Added Indonesian translation. 1.1.7
5. — Version 1.1.6 Prevent quick edit nonces from being submitted when searching or filtering a post list table. 1.1.6
6. — Version 1.1.5 Added Serbo-Croatian translation. 1.1.5

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 74 languages, 6 at 90% or more

Plus 50 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-07-29 20K+ → 10K+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-07-27 10K+ → 20K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-07-25 20K+ → 10K+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-07-23 10K+ → 20K+ up after 13 days in tier
5. 2026-07-10 20K+ → 10K+ down after 1096 days in tier
6. 2023-07-10 30K+ → 20K+ down

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).

• Custom Sidebars by ProteusThemes 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• M Multiple Sidebar Generator 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• W WooSidebars 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• Ocean Custom Sidebar 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• RaraTheme Companion 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Stag Custom Sidebars 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D

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Simple Page Sidebars: 10K+ active installs, 4.9★ (54 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-page-sidebars