{"active_installs":20,"added":{"timestamp":1283990400,"timezone":"UTC"},"author":"Tanmoy","author_profile":{"url":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/sktanmoy/","alt":"Tanmoy"},"banners":[],"changelog":null,"contributors":[{"slug":"sktanmoy","name":"Tanmoy","count":3,"is_owner":true,"links":{"profile":{"url":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/sktanmoy/","alt":"Tanmoy's profile"},"plugins":{"url":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/sktanmoy/#content-plugins","alt":"Tanmoy's plugins"},"activity":{"url":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/sktanmoy/#content-activity","alt":"Tanmoy's activity"},"translations":{"url":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/sktanmoy/#content-translations","alt":"Tanmoy's translations"}}}],"description":"

The normal Text widget allows you to insert arbitrary Text and/or HTML code.
\nThis allows that too, but also parses any inserted Shortcode and PHP code and executes smoothly.

All Shortcode must be enclosed in the standard [ and ] tags for it to be
\nrecognized.
\nAll PHP code must be enclosed in the standard tags for it to be
\nrecognized.

\n","downloaded":2823,"faq":null,"homepage":"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-sidebar-essential/","icons":[{"type":"default","url":"https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-sidebar-essential.svg"}],"installation":"

Upload wp-sidebar-essential.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Use the widget like any other widget.

\n","internal_ranking":0,"languages":[],"last_seen":{"timestamp":1765174828.948,"timezone":"UTC"},"last_updated":{"timestamp":1284014340,"timezone":"UTC"},"last_wordpress_compatible_version":"3.0.5","latest_num_ratings":0,"latest_rating":0,"latest_ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0,"links":{"1":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=1","alt":"View all 0 one star reviews"},"2":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=2","alt":"View all 0 two star reviews"},"3":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=3","alt":"View all 0 three star reviews"},"4":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=4","alt":"View all 0 four star reviews"},"5":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=5","alt":"View all 0 five star reviews"},"all":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/","alt":"View all 0 reviews"}}},"minimum_php_version":"f","minimum_wordpress_version":"2.8","name":"WP Sidebar Essential","num_ratings":0,"pluginid":"wp-sidebar-essential","rating":0,"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0,"links":{"1":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=1","alt":"View all 0 one star reviews"},"2":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=2","alt":"View all 0 two star reviews"},"3":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=3","alt":"View all 0 three star reviews"},"4":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=4","alt":"View all 0 four star reviews"},"5":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/?filter=5","alt":"View all 0 five star reviews"},"all":{"url":"https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sidebar-essential/reviews/","alt":"View all 0 reviews"}}},"reviews":[],"screenshots":"

$\"The$
The widgets screen showing a PHP code widget in use.
$\"The$
The widgets screen showing a shortcode widget in use.

","short_description":"Like the Text widget, but also allows working PHP code and shortcode to be inserted.","support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"tags":[{"slug":"widget","label":"widget","count":3125},{"slug":"shortcode","label":"shortcode","count":1685},{"slug":"sidebar","label":"sidebar","count":734},{"slug":"short-code","label":"short code","count":31},{"slug":"php-code","label":"php code","count":1}],"tags_count":5576,"languages_count":0,"age_days":5593.255980316389,"installs_per_rating":null,"downloads_per_rating":null,"installs_per_day":0.0035757347903230914,"downloads_per_day":0.5047149656541043,"reviews_per_day":0,"activation_rate":0.007084661707403472,"version":"1.1","marketplace":"wordpress","marketplace_url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sidebar-essential","price":null,"wordpress_link":{"alt":"WordPress","url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sidebar-essential"}}

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