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Widgets Control

Widgets Control

Design & Customization Widget Areas & Sidebar Management

Widgets Control is a WordPress plugin for Widget Areas & Sidebar Management. It ranks #33 of 37 in that group by active installs and was last updated 11 months ago.

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Slug widgets-control

800 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.7 Rating out of 5 From 15 ratings
21 Releases Since 10 March 2015
Dec 2025 Last release 11 months ago

Maintenance check

Is Widgets Control still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 11 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.7 out of 5 from 15 ratings.

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#1

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Widget Context

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Standing

More installed than 84.1% of the directory

Ahead of 40,129 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.

84.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
40,129 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
7,604 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
3.0.0
Requires WordPress
6.5
Tested up to
6.9.11
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
10 March 2015
Last updated
20 December 2025
Contributors
2
Author
itthinx

Its own tags

  • context
  • sidebar
  • theme
  • visibility
  • widget

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