Best context plugins for WordPress
The most popular context plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Conditional Menus leads with 60K+ active installs, ahead of Widget Context (30K+) and Widgets Control (800+). All 9 plugins tagged “context” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 9 context plugins
- 1.
Conditional MenusThe most installed context plugin, with 60K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 71 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Widget Context30K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 98 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 3.
Widgets Control800+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Widget Manager Light600+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 11 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 5.
Conditional Tags Shortcode100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 6.
Context Manager20+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 7.
Menu Rules10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 8.
İçerik Bulutu10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 9.
In-Context Comment10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
All 9 plugins tagged “context”
Conditional Menus
#662by themifyme2 months ago
This plugin enables you to set conditional menus per posts, pages, categories, archive pages, etc.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.4(71)
- Downloads
- 220/day
Widget Context
Up in the last 7 days:1#932by Kaspars1 month ago
Show and hide widgets on specific posts, pages and sections of your site.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.5(98)
- Downloads
- 292/day
Widgets Control
Up in the last 7 days:4#7,536by itthinx10 months ago
A Widget toolbox that adds visibility management and helps to control where widgets, sidebars and content are shown efficiently.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Widget Manager Light
Down in the last 7 days:11#8,402by OTWthemes4 years ago
Widget Manager lets you control on which pages widgets appear via nice and easy interface. Show or hide widgets. Display relevant content on your page …
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.8(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Conditional Tags Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:61#14,497by shazdeh6 years ago
A shortcode to display content based on context.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Context Manager
#28,009by Phill Brown13 years ago
Make your site react to users' context by changing your theme's CSS and JavaScript files, navigation menus, sidebars and the HTML body tag.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Menu Rules
Down in the last 7 days:117#31,643by Phill Brown14 years ago
An extension of the menu system with context-based rules and a flexible framework to write your own.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
İçerik Bulutu
Down in the last 7 days:414#34,568by ahmetdurmusoglu5 years ago
This plugin imports and synchronizes your purchased contents from İçerik Bulutu.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
In-Context Comment
Down in the last 7 days:3,394#39,770by InContext15 years ago
"In-Context Comment" lets readers leave comments right next to the content being commented, instead of only at the bottom of the blog post
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day