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Widgets on Pages

by toddhalfpenny · Uncategorized

The easiest and highest rated way to Add Widgets or Sidebars to Posts and Pages using Visual editor, shortcodes or template tags.

⚠ Stale
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64 Health · C
Maintenance 35
Rating quality 93
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-31%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “20K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈29K

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

Install trend · reconstructed from 1385 daily snapshots

Details

Version
1.9.0
Last updated
1.7y ago
Added
2010-04-20
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
6.7.0
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-07-12 30K+ → 20K+ down

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Widgets on Pages: 20K+ active installs, 4.7★ (161 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/widgets-on-pages