WordPress plugin comparison

Categories Recent Posts Widget vs Content Aware Sidebars

Categories Recent Posts Widget

by The Medios

30+ installs5.0

Content Aware Sidebars

by Joachim Jensen

30K+ installs4.9

At a glance

Content Aware Sidebars has more active installs: 30K+, against 30+ for Categories Recent Posts Widget.
On a typical day, Content Aware Sidebars is downloaded about 356 times, Categories Recent Posts Widget about 2.
Categories Recent Posts Widget is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review, against 4.9 from 724 reviews.
Content Aware Sidebars was updated more recently: Oct 23, 2026, against Jan 25, 2014 for Categories Recent Posts Widget.
Content Aware Sidebars is tested with a newer WordPress: 7.1.4, against 3.7.41 for Categories Recent Posts Widget.
Content Aware Sidebars has been around longer: since 2011, against 2012 for Categories Recent Posts Widget.

Content Aware Sidebars leads on 6 of 7 comparable lines.

Metric	Categories Recent Posts Widget	Content Aware Sidebars
Popular rank	#23,286	#1,000
Active installs	30+	30K+
Downloads, last 30 days	54	21.2K
Rating	5.0(1)	4.9(724)
Support threads resolved	–	0%
Tested up to	3.7.41	7.1.4
Search multiplier	×0.00	×0.99
Last release	12 years ago	17 days ago
Requires PHP	–	7.4

From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.

Track your plugin against its rivals every day: rank, installs, downloads, ratings and their releases, with alerts when anything moves.