Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin
Design & Customization Widget Areas & Sidebar Management
Content Aware Sidebars is a WordPress plugin for Widget Areas & Sidebar Management. It ranks #5 of 37 in that group by active installs and was last updated 2 weeks ago.
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Maintenance check
Is Content Aware Sidebars still maintained?
Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.
- Updated recently. The last release was 2 weeks ago.
- Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
- Well rated. 4.9 out of 5 from 724 ratings.
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Standing
More installed than 97.7% of the directory
Ahead of 46,653 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.
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Details
The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 3.21.4
- Requires WordPress
- 5.8
- Tested up to
- 7.1.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Added to the directory
- 3 August 2011
- Last updated
- 23 October 2026
- Contributors
- 3
- Author
- Joachim Jensen
- Support threads resolved
- 0 of 1
Its own tags
- bbPress
- classic widgets
- custom sidebars
- sidebar
- widget
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