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Essential Widgets
v3.2.1
Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option
by Catch Themes · Website
categoriespagespoststagswidgets
- Rank
- #1,814 24h -1 · 7d -6
- Est. installs
- 16,417 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 522K all time
- Rating
- 3.5 ★ 2 reviews
- Official installs
- 10,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 1 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 100% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.7 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
4 months ago
Last release
- Version
- 3.2.1
- Requires WP
- 5.9
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- On WP.org since
- 2017
About Essential Widgets
Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin by Catch Themes, first published on WordPress.org in 2017. It has 10,000+ active installations and 522,260 downloads in total, and ranks #1,814 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Over the past week it slipped 6 places. Users rate it 3.5 out of 5 across 2 reviews. Version 3.2.1 was released 4 months ago. It is tested up to WordPress 7.0.7 and requires WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4 or later. In the last two months, 1 of 1 support thread was marked resolved (100%). It is listed under categories, pages, posts, tags and widgets. Plugins with a similar focus include Flexible Posts Widget, SEO Auto Linker and Post Tags and Categories for Pages.
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