Alternatives to Essential Widgets
Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option
Snapshot
Rating: 3.5/5 (2 reviews)
Downloads: 464,717
Active installs: 10,000
Maintenance score: 61/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f
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Media Library Assistant(196)•Updated 72d ago
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
70,000 installs2,440,389 downloads74/100 • Actively maintained
Post Tags and Categories for Pages(23)•Updated 1126d ago
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
20,000 installs230,653 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
10,000 installs60,853 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Visual Term Description Editor(21)•Updated 501d ago
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
10,000 installs94,552 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Flexible Posts Widget(57)•Updated 2955d ago
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
8,000 installs213,111 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simply Exclude(23)•Updated 3938d ago
Note to all used who tried the version 2.0 and 2.0.1 there were was bugs in the logic which upgrades the previous version of the Simply Exclude config …
7,000 installs262,203 downloads14/100 • Possibly abandoned
SEO Auto Linker(16)•Updated 379d ago
SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins.
4,000 installs59,719 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Multi-column Tag Map(62)•Updated 189d ago
Multi-column Tag Map will display tags, pages, posts, categories, custom post types, authors and taxonomies in a visually logical way similiar to that …
4,000 installs275,466 downloads34/100 • Stale
Bulk Term Generator – Import multiple tags, categories, and taxonomies easily(17)•Updated 610d ago
Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing.
2,000 installs15,580 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Categorized Tag Cloud(10)•Updated 649d ago
A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category.
1,000 installs58,417 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Attachment Taxonomies(10)•Updated 36d ago
This plugin adds categories and tags to the WordPress media library - lightweight and developer-friendly.
1,000 installs57,633 downloads53/100 • Actively maintained
Custom Recent Posts Widget(9)•Updated 2955d ago
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
1,000 installs51,245 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
SEO Auto Links(12)•Updated 4276d ago
With SEO Auto Links you can easily add links (automatically) for keywords and phrases in posts, pages and comments.
600 installs47,099 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Name: WP Exclude From Homepage(14)•Updated 4336d ago
Exclude categories, tags, posts or pages from your homepage (without breaking pagination)
500 installs15,574 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
200 installs4,199 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Status Scheduler(1)•Updated 3144d ago
Change status, categories/tags or postmeta of any post type at a scheduled timestamp.
30 installs3,010 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
20 installs421 downloads50/100 • Maintained
SEO Links Generator(2)•Updated 3032d ago
With SEO Links Generator you can easily add links (automatically) for keywords and phrases in posts, pages and comments.
10 installs1,311 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Easy Taxonomy Support(0)•Updated 4276d ago
Use post tags and categories with pages and custom post types.
10 installs1,758 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Taxonomy Extender For Categories and Tags(0)•Updated 215d ago
Adds category and tag support to pages, and extends the default WordPress Categories and Tag widgets to allow excluding specific categories and tags.
0 installs785 downloads38/100 • Stale