Best widget management plugins for WordPress
The most popular widget management plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Custom Fields leads with 500+ active installs, ahead of Widget Master (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “widget management” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 widget management plugins
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Advanced Custom FieldsThe most installed widget management plugin, with 500+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.0.
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Widget Master10+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
All 2 plugins tagged “widget management”
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:60#8,638by djbokka13 years ago
This plugin is an add-on for Advanced Custom Fields. It allows you to use an ACF "relationship" field to choose widgets at a page level.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Widget Master
Down in the last 7 days:11#31,226by x4293924w11 years ago
The Widget Master plugin lets visitors to choose what widgets/blocks he want or wont to see on your pages. Visitor can hide widgets per PHP session.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 1/day