Best sidebar widget plugins for WordPress
The most popular sidebar widget plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Sidebar Login Widget leads with 600+ active installs, ahead of Menu Based Sidebar (300+) and MK Post and Page Excerpts Widgets (40+). All 12 plugins tagged “sidebar widget” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 sidebar widget plugins
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Sidebar Login WidgetThe most installed sidebar widget plugin, with 600+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 17 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 2.
Menu Based Sidebar300+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
MK Post and Page Excerpts Widgets40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 4.
Simple Feed Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 5.
GloDer RSS10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
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Twitter Display and Cache10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
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SDAC Translate10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4.
All 12 plugins tagged “sidebar widget”
Sidebar Login Widget
Down in the last 7 days:40#8,170by Rashed Latif12 years ago
I Appreciate if you please give reviews and any suggestions after using this plugin. If you like this plugin you can donate or contribute by clicking …
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.8(17)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Menu Based Sidebar
Up in the last 7 days:112#10,590by WP-EXPERTS.IN12 days ago
Displays child menu items in the sidebar based on the currently selected parent menu item.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
MK Post and Page Excerpts Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:90#21,652by Manoj Kumar5 years ago
Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Feed Widget
Up in the last 7 days:358#30,308by Artdevbackendteam7 years ago
This pLugin is used for tweeter feed widget, it's automatically croll your twitter account feed and show on the your website, you can put this widget on sidebar and footer section.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GloDer RSS
Down in the last 7 days:167#31,076by andrewfrazier12 years ago
A plugin to add a sidebar widget for RSS feeds of the current site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Twitter Display and Cache
Up in the last 7 days:6,043#39,002by Rashed Latif12 years ago
This plugin is used to fetch recent tweets and display on sidebar and caches tweets as well. Its a very basic plugin. Good for new programmers to unde …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SDAC Translate
#44,921by jenz15 years ago
Simple lightweight translation sidebar widget that uses Google Translation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day