Best sidebar plugins for WordPress
606 plugins tagged “sidebar” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

Featured Category Widget
Up in the last 7 days:42#15,543by tepelstreel10 years ago
The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

IP Address Widget II
Down in the last 7 days:52#15,544by myproxy1 month ago
Show the visitor's information in a widget, including the IP address, country, flag, city, region, language, operating system, and browser.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Category Cloud Widget
Down in the last 7 days:57#15,653by vertino18 years ago
The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Flexo Archives
Up in the last 7 days:4#15,666by Heath Harrelson15 years ago
Displays your archives as a compact list of years that expands when clicked.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CG Dynamic Sidebar
Down in the last 7 days:10#15,918by Chandan Garg7 years ago
CG Dynamic Sidebar helps you to add/create multiple sidebar areas in your admin widgets screen. Easy Installation and Easy management.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kalendarium CZ
Down in the last 7 days:38#15,932by svasek16 years ago
Shows actual date and the czech name days in the sidebar
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Social Space
Down in the last 7 days:41#16,423by Shah Rishabh10 years ago
A ridiculously simple plugin for showing your social network links using a simple widget so that people can connect with you more easily.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post expire date Sidebar
Up in the last 7 days:39#16,603by popeating6 years ago
Post expire date sidebar for Gutenberg it's a minimal plugin that allow to set an expiration date for posts
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Guitar Chords Widget for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:28#16,794by theguitarlesson4 years ago
Interactive guitar chord generator, with 1,438 chord diagrams.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Page Specific Sidebars
Down in the last 7 days:109#16,946by ivycat14 years ago
Add a sidebar to any specific page by creating a widget area on demand.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

A Featured Page Widget
Down in the last 7 days:85#17,136by Eduardo Zulian11 years ago
Feature a page and display its excerpt and post thumbnail.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Recent posts of specific category
Down in the last 7 days:76#17,209by dwm.me11 years ago
Displays a post list that belong to it by selecting the category.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

List Related Attachments
Up in the last 7 days:53#17,286by Baden7 years ago
Listed Related Attachments will display a filtered list of all related attachments for the current post or page.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP REST API Sidebars
Down in the last 7 days:318#17,573by Martin Pettersson10 years ago
An extension for the WP REST API that exposes endpoints for sidebars and widgets.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WPML Widget Filter
Down in the last 7 days:12#17,625by Ayebare Mucunguzi Brooks12 years ago
WPML Widget Filter lets you control on which languages widgets or sidebars appear when using WPML Translation plugin.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Calculator
Down in the last 7 days:115#17,642by philippe12 years ago
Adds a widget that display a simple calculator.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CC Mortgage Calculator
Up in the last 7 days:299#17,652by CC4 months ago
Add a free simple customizable mortgage calculator to your web site.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Subpage Sidebar
Up in the last 7 days:100#17,713by Jon Schroeder12 years ago
This plugin replaces your Genesis primary sidebar with a list of child pages (supports custom post types). Only works with Genesis child themes.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Sidebar Login
Down in the last 7 days:219#17,799by Pankaj Jha10 years ago
This plugin used to easily add an ajax enabled wordpress login widget to your site's sidebar.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Collapsing Links
Up in the last 7 days:41#17,929by robfelty11 years ago
This widget uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable the set of links for each link category.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Amikelive Adsense Widget
Down in the last 7 days:99#17,959by mikaelfs16 years ago
This plugin enables Google adsense display on the sidebar or widget area only by activating and configuring the widget.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day

Pretty Sidebar Categories
#18,161by GrandSlambert20 days ago
Show posts from any taxonomy in a sidebar or Elementor, with images, excerpts, and style controls.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Monthchunks
Down in the last 7 days:224#18,179by Justin Watt10 months ago
Concisely display monthly archives by year with links to each month.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sidebar Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:84#18,605by DanCoulter18 years ago
Allows shortcodes to be used in the sidebar text widget.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plugin Name
Down in the last 7 days:241#18,641by Tanmoy16 years ago
This Plugin Will enable short code in WordPress sidebar Widget. By default, wordpress doesn't support Short Code in Sidebar Widget.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Tilted Tag Cloud Widget
Up in the last 7 days:148#18,807by whiletrue2 months ago
Shows a tilted cloud with the most used tags in a sidebar widget.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sidebars Gutenberg Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:398#18,954by GrandPlugins3 years ago
You dont need to depend on the theme layout for sidebars in gutenberg. using this plugin you can place sidebars and other widgets areas in gutenberg p …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FF Tab Widget
Up in the last 7 days:118#19,039by Kharis Sulistiyono13 years ago
Display popular posts, recent posts, recent commets, and tags in an animated tabs in a single widget.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spectacu.la Page Widget
Down in the last 7 days:15#19,052by Spectacula16 years ago
Widget that lets you output the content of a page in any place that'll accept a widget and allows you to hide said page from navigation (wp_list_ …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Etsy Widget
Down in the last 7 days:32#19,137by jcoxwell16 years ago
This plugin adds a sidebar widget that is similar to Etsy Mini but allows control of styling and other parameters.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sliding Panel
Up in the last 7 days:36#19,343by Justin Tadlock13 years ago
Adds a responsive sliding panel to the top of your WordPress-powered site.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
List Authors
Up in the last 7 days:91#19,427by Takaitra16 years ago
A widget to display a list of site authors.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tabbed Sidebar Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:154#19,428by Takis Bouyouris13 years ago
Pack multiple sidebar widgets into one convenient tabbed container.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.5(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Snippets
Up in the last 7 days:92#19,556by Justin Tadlock7 years ago
Allows you to add custom widget content on a post-by-post basis from the edit post screen.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Webdoone Simple Image Widget
Up in the last 7 days:206#19,614by webdoone10 years ago
A simpe and easy way to place an image in your any widget area.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Accessibility spring
Up in the last 7 days:150#19,771by Oleksandr Lysyi2 years ago
Accessibility spring provides instruments for making your site more accessible for people with the visually impaired. You can in a simple way configur …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Events Listing Widget
Down in the last 7 days:177#19,855by Yannick Lefebvre9 months ago
Create a list of upcoming events and display them using an easy-to-use widget
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WP Super Speed
Up in the last 7 days:149#20,485by bhavinder8 years ago
This powerful plugin dramatically reducing CPU and RAM utilization by 70-80%. Surely you’ll find a difference due to its presence.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 2.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Photos
Down in the last 7 days:180#20,704by Hemant Nandrajog (instruite)16 years ago
Recent Photos Plugin provides with a widget to display n numbers of recent photos from the media library in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Carousel
#20,784by sumolari15 years ago
WP Carousel is a plugin that allows you to add a carousel with posts, categories, tags, authors, pages, and much more. It is easy to install and use.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Count All
Down in the last 7 days:400#20,836by horvath.agoston5 years ago
Very simple, highly customizable counter widget for showing difference in days from a specified date and time.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sidebar Widget Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:431#20,899by PressCargo7 years ago
Creates a widget for displaying Gutenberg blocks in your sidebars
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Newsletter subscription optin module
Down in the last 7 days:13#20,962by nonletter5 years ago
Plugin for managing subscriptions to a mailing list. It provides a simple form for subscription to your mailing list through single or double opt-in.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
LJ Subpages Widget
Up in the last 7 days:113#21,007by littlejon15 years ago
LJ Subpages Widget allows you to display a menu listing subpages from a chosen page.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Widget Locationizer
#21,146by nickohrn18 years ago
Widget Locationizer permits you to define where you want your widgets to appear. You may specify
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Widget Styler
Up in the last 7 days:96#21,218by vladff10 years ago
Easily style your widgets
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SensitiveTagCloud
Down in the last 7 days:121#21,498by reneade17 years ago
This wordpress plugin provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context (e.g. Category, Author, Tag, Post) only.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto Anchor List
Up in the last 7 days:71#21,546by mindwiremedia17 years ago
Creates anchor links to heading tags in the content and displays automatically at the top of the content, or allows for custom placement with tags.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
phpbb_recent_topics
Down in the last 7 days:284#21,655by linickx15 years ago
This plugin grabs your recent phpBB forum topics for you to display in wordpress.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Live Search Popup
Down in the last 7 days:88#21,675live-search-popup18 years ago
Spotlight (tm) like live search with an ajax popup
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day