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Essential Widgets

Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version3.2.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update18 Jun 20264mo ago
Active installations10K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.5 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Essential Widgets version 3.2.1 as active, updated 4mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

Essential Widgets – a free WordPress plugin for widgets allows you to create and add interesting widgets on your website to make it more attractive and welcoming. Essential Widgets stays true to the essence of its name and offers exactly what you expect from a widgets plugin—all the “essential” widgets for your website. The plugin has been crafted beautifully to draw the extra attention to the important parts of your website.

Essential Widgets provides you with the ability to have more control over the widgets with the various customization options. This free WordPress plugin for widgets allows you to create 7 different interesting widgets on your website. All the 7 widgets provided to you comes with so many customization options and are very easy to use.

So, with Essential Widgets plugin, customize the interesting widgets your way and display them anywhere you want on your website to make it more dynamic.

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EW: Archives

The Archives widget comes with various customization options. Choose a title, limit the number of posts, select the archive type, post type, order and more with the Archives widget.

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EW: Authors

Displaying the author’s information is kind of a must-have feature if your website has multiple authors. Our new WordPress widgets plugin allows you to add Authors widget. With this widget, you can show the list of the authors on your website, the number of posts, select feed type, and more.

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EW: Categories

Essential Widgets Pro supports Categories widget. The widget provides you with various customizable options such as the title of the widget, taxonomy option, order option, number of categories to show, display as a list or none, number of posts to display, sort by option, select feed type ton display and display as text or image.

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EW: Menus

Bored with the same default menu? Our new WordPress plugin for widgets, Essential Widgets Pro supports Menus widget. With the Menus widget filled with various customization options, you can display your menus elegantly anywhere you want on your website.

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EW: Pages

Display a list of pages with the Pages widget. With various customization options being provided to you, you can showcase the pages that are more important on your website wherever you want with Essential Widgets Pro.

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EW: Posts

Essential Widgets Pro supports Posts widget. With the widget and its customizable options, you can easily display a list of posts on your website. You can add a title, select the post type, number of items to display, order, sort by, and more.

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EW: Tags

And last, but definitely not the least, the Tags widget. You can display a list of tags as cloud or list, select the order of the tags, sort by option and the number of items to be displayed. The widget also provides you with more customization options including the unit, separator, search, text type, and more.

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  • categories
  • pages
  • posts
  • tags
  • widgets
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Update activity18 Jun 20264mo ago

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