About this plugin
Advance Widget Pack bundles a full set of content widgets and blocks for your sidebars and posts: Author Details, Author List, Popular Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Comments, Random Posts, Recent Posts, Related Posts, Tag Cloud, Social Links, Top Authors, Table of Contents, Countdown Timer, and a Reading Progress Bar. Every widget is also available as a native Gutenberg block.
Settings
Visit Settings → Advance Widget Pack to turn off any widget or block you don’t use. Disabling a feature only hides it from the widget picker and block inserter — anything already placed in a sidebar or post keeps working, so it’s always safe to toggle without breaking existing content.
Author Details: This widget displays author gravatar and allows you to align the gravatar to left or right. at the end you can add a read more link which will take you to your desired page and another option to display author\’s archive link.
Author List: This widget displays names of all authors who have published a post. It allows you to exclude one or more authors from the list by adding their IDs. you can also limit the number of authors to display.
Popular Post: By default, the title for this widget is Popular Posts. You can specify the title of your choice if you want.
You can also specify the number of popular posts to be displayed in the \”Number of Posts\” field. By default, 5 popular posts will be displayed.
There are two radio buttons to sort the popular posts according to the number of views and number of comments. You can select either of the two options. By default, popular posts are sorted according to views.
After the radio buttons, there are check-boxes. You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts.
Random Posts: This widget displays the posts in random order each time your window refresh.
First field is the title field where you can specify the title of your choice. By default, the title is Recent Posts.
Then there are check-boxes. You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts.
In the \”Number of Posts\” field, you can specify the number of posts to be displayed. By default, 5 recent posts will be displayed.
Recent Posts: This widget displays the recent posts in your sidebar.
First field is the title field where you can specify the title of your choice. By default, the title is Recent Posts.
Then there are check-boxes. You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts.
In the \”Number of Posts\” field, you can specify the number of posts to be displayed. By default, 5 recent posts will be displayed.
Recent Comments: This widget is used to display the most recent comments on your website.
In the title field, you can specify the title for your widget. You can select the check-boxes if you want to display the comment text and the commentator\’s gravatar respectively.
You also specify the number of recent comments to be displayed.
Featured Posts: You can change the default title in the title field and number of posts to display.
You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts.
You can choose to display the posts belonging to a particular category only.
Related Posts: Shows posts related to the one being viewed, matched by shared category or tag.
Tag Cloud: A styled cloud of the site’s most-used tags, with count/order options.
Social Links: A row of links to your Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and GitHub profiles.
Top Authors: A leaderboard ranking authors by total post views or total comments received.
Table of Contents: An auto-generated, clickable outline built from the current post’s own headings (choose which heading levels to include). Every heading on the page gets a stable link target automatically, even if you never add a Table of Contents block/widget at all.
Blocks
Every widget above is also available as a native Gutenberg block — search the block inserter for “AWP” to find them all. Two additional blocks are block-only (they don’t make sense as sidebar widgets):
- Countdown Timer — counts down to a target date/time and shows a custom message once it ends. Great for launches and events.
- Reading Progress Bar — a slim fixed bar at the top (or bottom) of the page that fills in as the reader scrolls through your content.