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WPML Widgets

by Jeroen Sormani · Admin & Utilities

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WPML Widgets is a simple to use extension to add a language selector dropdown to your widgets.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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51 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

9K+

Active installs

≈9.4K estimated

172.9K

Total downloads

since 2014

4.64★

Rating (adjusted)

4.9★ raw · 36 reviews

+49%

257

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, 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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+49% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

257

now · peak 626

26230d 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

WPML Widgets · #2306 you WP Editor Widget · #2293 WPML Multilingual fo · #2810 Simple Yearly Archiv · #2837

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · Aug 26

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.

29per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.7y ago

latest release · v1.0.6

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.6 · 9.7y ago1.0.5 · 9.7y ago1.0.4 · 11.4y ago1.0.3 · 11.7y ago1.0.2 · 12.3y ago1.0.1 · 12.3y ago

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 “9K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
9K–10K ≈9.4K

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

Install history · since 2015-04-18 · 1,437 observations

9KInstalls · 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 · 36 reviews

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5★
35 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0.6
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2014-04-09 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Tanvir
    5.0y ago

    This plugin is still working perfectly in 2021. 🙂

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  2. ★★★★★ Cris Ta
    9.3y ago

    Easy and very friendly!! I´m very very happy using this plugin. This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Cris Ta.

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  3. ★★★★★ ldwd
    9.5y ago

    Ow Jeroen!! So grateful for your plugin!! 🙂 I was challenged BIG time by WPML to translate widgets using String Translation, which is not very user friendly. After searching their support forum for some answers I finally found your plugin that really *saved* me. It does exactly what I need! 🙂 Soooo happy!! Thank you, thank you 😀 P.S. This plugin should be default in the WPML package

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  4. ★★★★★ healiny
    9.9y ago

    Perfect plugin Thank you

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  5. ★★★★★ webaltoimpacto
    9.9y ago

    Que bueno es.

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  6. ★★★★★ franboud
    10.3y ago

    Thank you for this great plugin, which is a missing feature in WPML.

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  7. ★★★★★ Claudio Sanches
    10.4y ago

    Great work!

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  8. ★★★★★ nowhereclose
    10.6y ago

    There is so much issues in this plugin that makes it hard to use. I am wondering why people likes it. When you don’t know how to use sql please dont do this kind of things

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Latest updates

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.0.6 Fix – Issue introduced in 1.0.5 where with some people the ‘wpml_get_active_languages()’ function doesn’t exist. 1.0.6
  2. — Version 1.0.5 Change – Removed the unneeded prefixes of the class methods. Tested – With the current WordPress version (4.7) Improvement – Change the deprecated ‘wpml_active_languages’ function to ‘wpml_get_active_languages’ 1.0.5
  3. — Version 1.0.4 Fix – Escape url in admin 1.0.4
  4. — Version 1.0.3 Fix – Notice on WP_Debug mode when values are not saved Add – Nagg message when WPML is not active 😉 Improvement – Use Singleton to initiate plugin Improvement – Better code/comment quality 1.0.3
  5. — Version 1.0.2 Fix – WordPress Multisite supported check = 1.0.1= * Fix – notices in debug mode * Fix – Widgets won’t break when WPML is not activated 1.0.2
  6. — Version 1.0.0 Initial release 1.0.0

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. 2026-04-25 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-24 9K+ → 10K+ up after 5 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-19 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1220 days in tier
  4. 2022-12-16 20K+ → 10K+ down

Competes with

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