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Widgets Area Chooser

by shaunandrews · Uncategorized

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Dragging and dropping widgets into sidebars can be tricky. This plugin lets you click a widget, and then choose where it should be placed. Simple.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

3.8K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.22★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 5 reviews

-4%

52

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

Removal-risk signals

51/100

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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.

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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4693 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

-4% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

52

now · peak 136

5230d 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

Widgets Area Chooser · #42253 you One Click Demo Impor · #60 Ocean Extra · #130 SiteOrigin Widgets B · #147

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.

5.2Kper 1k installs · Aug 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.

v0.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈17

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,383 observations

10Installs · 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 · 5 reviews

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5★
5 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.4
Last updated
12.9y ago
Added
2013-10-16 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
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Tested up to
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Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ dedalik
    12.6y ago

    Thank you for this great plugin!

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  2. ★★★★★ freemind369
    12.8y ago

    …by placing widgets in the right place. Espacially if the widget area is out of the visible part from the screen. Thanks to the guys for it

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  3. ★★★★★ addressee
    12.8y ago

    It would be nice if this/similar could also work for inactive widgets.

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  4. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    12.9y ago

    This is the way the Widgets area should have always operated. This is certainly a core plugin all WordPress publishers should have.

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  5. ★★★★★ John Regan
    12.9y ago

    I’ve thought for a long time that WP Widgets needed reworking. This is a huge step in the right direction!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

✓ 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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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