Plugin Pulse
← Pulse
S

Simple Page to Sidebar

by stiwahn · Admin & Utilities

Simple Page to Sidebar lets you simply add page content to a sidebar. No more, no less.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5090 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

Get the full rank-higher report →

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+34% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

83

now · peak 169

8330d downloads · Sep 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

Simple Page to Sideb · #13032 you Recent Posts Widget · #347 Image Widget · #402 Custom Sidebars · #442

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.

830per 1k installs · Sep 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
100–200 ≈150

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2019-11-20 · 1,381 observations

100Installs · Sep 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
1.0
Last updated
13.9y ago
Added
2012-09-24 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. Charlie Sweatpants
    13.8y ago

    Wanted a way to display a list of HTML bullets from a page to the sidebar on the homepage. There are a lot of page content widgets out there, but none of them work as well as this one if you just want to grab content from a page, display it in HTML, and not have to do anything further.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

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

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. 2026-09-01 200+ → 100+ down after 776 days in tier
  2. 2024-07-17 300+ → 200+ down after 563 days in tier
  3. 2023-01-01 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2022-12-31 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2022-12-30 400+ → 300+ 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).

Compare head to head →

Embed this report card

Drop a live Pulse card for Simple Page to Sidebar into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.

<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/simple-page-to-sidebar" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Simple Page to Sidebar — Plugin Pulse"></iframe>
Preview card ↗

Simple Page to Sidebar: 100+ active installs, 4.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-page-to-sidebar