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: 508,275
Active installs: 10,000
Maintenance score: 60/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 7.4
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Media Library Assistant(200)•Updated 24d ago
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
70,000 installs2,695,948 downloads85/100 • Actively maintained
Post Tags and Categories for Pages(23)•Updated 176d ago
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
20,000 installs249,017 downloads54/100 • Maintained
10,000 installs60,853 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Visual Term Description Editor(21)•Updated 684d ago
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
10,000 installs98,726 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Flexible Posts Widget(57)•Updated 3138d ago
An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!
8,000 installs215,093 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simply Exclude(23)•Updated 4121d 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
Multi-column Tag Map(62)•Updated 372d 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 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
SEO Auto Linker(16)•Updated 562d ago
SEO Auto Linker assists in creating cornerstone SEO content. This is not a full replacement for SEO plugins.
3,000 installs61,290 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Bulk Term Generator – Import multiple tags, categories, and taxonomies easily(17)•Updated 793d ago
Streamline taxonomy management in WordPress with Bulk Term Generator, your free tool for easy, bulk term importing.
2,000 installs16,872 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Categorized Tag Cloud(10)•Updated 46d ago
A cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget, filtered by post category.
1,000 installs59,212 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Custom Recent Posts Widget(9)•Updated 3138d ago
A widget to show recent posts list based on categories or tags
1,000 installs51,754 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
SEO Auto Links(12)•Updated 4459d 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 4519d ago
Exclude categories, tags, posts or pages from your homepage (without breaking pagination)
500 installs15,574 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
200 installs4,699 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Page Category and Tag – Add Categories and Tags to WordPress Pages(0)•Updated 129d ago
Add categories and tags to WordPress pages. Enable page category and page tag support easily.
70 installs759 downloads40/100 • Maintained
Post Status Scheduler(1)•Updated 3327d ago
Change status, categories/tags or postmeta of any post type at a scheduled timestamp.
30 installs3,297 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
SEO Links Generator(2)•Updated 3215d ago
With SEO Links Generator you can easily add links (automatically) for keywords and phrases in posts, pages and comments.
10 installs1,653 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Easy Taxonomy Support(0)•Updated 4459d ago
Use post tags and categories with pages and custom post types.
10 installs2,101 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Taxonomy Extender For Categories and Tags(0)•Updated 398d 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 installs1,183 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
TechWithNavi Pages Taxonomy Manager(0)•Updated 82d ago
Manage Categories and Tags for WordPress Pages.
0 installs316 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained