Widgetize Pages Light

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 65% 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. ★★★★★ newbiesite

   5.9y ago

   Looks like the plugin developer has abandoned it as the incompatibility hasn’t been addressed for many weeks. This means that users have to avoid ANY plugins created by OTWthemes

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2. ★★★★★ Dagmar

   6.0y ago

   Doesn’t work propperly with PHP 7.4 and PHP7.3. Plugin author doesn’t answer questions, his last response to suppoprt questions is more than three years ago – seems kind of abonned 🙁 This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Dagmar.

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3. ★★★★★ dmpub

   8.0y ago

   Promising software, but has fatal bugs and looking at the error messages it seems like there are some simple typos in some of their variable name calls. Unfortunately, the free version of the software is unsupported, so I’ve no choice other than to uninstall and choose another similar product.

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4. ★★★★★ humananimal

   8.1y ago

   I have used this for a few years now… Super helpful! 🙂

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5. ★★★★★ Shahid Malik

   8.5y ago

   This plugin worked like a charm for me.. thank you dvelopers

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6. ★★★★★ Joe

   9.5y ago

   Well, what a THIEF. Below this is my original review of this plugin. I just found another widget plugin named “Widgets on Pages” by toddhalfpenny. It seemed very familiar, the interface looks exactly the same, the options, the way it worked. It even had the same bug of leaving the sidebar behind after being uninstalled. I compared it to this plugin, and this one was made 3 months after the other one was. This one is being SOLD by otwthemes-dot-com. It is called “Sidebar & Widget Manager for WordPress” and cost $23. I do not approve of this behavior. My original rating was 5 stars, it is now 1 star. ORIGINAL – I was really surprised to see the plugin actually works. It does exactly what I was hoping it would do, put a widget where a post would usually be. I just uninstalled the plugin and noticed it left behind the sidebar I created with it. I wish I could delete it, but no big problem really. – ORIGINAL This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Joe. This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Joe. This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Joe. Reason: Reading the review will explain the reason This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Joe.

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7. ★★★★★ iammichelewells

   10.4y ago

   This is an excellent plugin and it solved a number of problems for my website.

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8. ★★★★★ Kalle1887

   10.6y ago

   Good work!!Well done!!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.0 Updated: Apply Default requests values Fixed: Dynamic shortcode fields 3.0
2. — Version 2.9 Fixed: Check for registered block editors Updated: Core components 2.9
3. — Version 2.8 Updated: OTW shortcode dialog loading improvements Updated: Latest version of shortcode and factory component Fixed: Help message formating 2.8
4. — Version 2.7 Updated: Use strict mode for javascript Updated: Escape html attributes Updated: Use WP filesystem for file operations Fixed: Detect whether api call is from admin or frontend 2.7
5. — Version 2.6 Fixed: remove lang pack since it requires en by default 2.6
6. — Version 2.5 Updated: latest version of OTW factory Fixed: error mode modification 2.5

4 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 4 still affect the current version.

1. Medium · 4.4 Widgetize Pages Light <= 3.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-05 CVE-2025-58805 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 3.0 No patch available
2. Medium · 6.1 Widgetize Pages Light <= 3.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-06-05 CVE-2025-30995 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.0 No patch available
3. Medium · 6.1 Widgetize Pages Light <= 3.0 & Widgets as Shortcodes <= 5.9.10 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-04-07 CVE-2025-32117 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 3.0 No patch available
4. Medium · 6.1 Widgetize Pages Light <= 3.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-01-06 CVE-2025-22313 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 3.0 No patch available

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.3

Translated into 69 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 45 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-05-01 4K+ → 3K+ down after 357 days in tier
2. 2024-05-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2024-05-07 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-05-06 5K+ → 4K+ down after 3 days in tier
5. 2024-05-03 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-05-02 5K+ → 4K+ down after 270 days in tier
7. 2023-08-06 6K+ → 5K+ down after 243 days in tier
8. 2022-12-06 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier

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).

• Widgets on Pages 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags C
• Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Lightweight Sidebar Manager 80K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• SMK Sidebar Generator 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• D Disable Author Pages 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• Feature A Page Widget 3K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D

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Widgetize Pages Light: 3K+ active installs, 4.2★ (32 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/widgetize-pages-light