by Catch Themes 3.5 (2 reviews)

Essential Widgets

Name: Essential Widgets
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Catch Themes

Essential Widgets is a WordPress plugin for widgets that allows you to create and add amazing widgets with high customization option

Essential Widgets ranks #1,798 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #251 of 8,538 in the Customization category, a 3.5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Jun 18, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.4 (Current: 7.1)

v3.2.1 Current Version v3.2.1

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 18 Jun, 2026

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#251 of 8,538 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads -18.8% this week

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Rank

#1,798

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Active Installs

10K+

-35.3%

KW Avg Position

66.4

1.2 better

Downloads

519.8K

+50 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

70%

Review 3.5 out of 5

3.5 (2 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 52.9%

10K+ 20K+

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Reviews & Ratings

3.5

2 reviews

Overall 70%

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Support Threads Overview

Resolved

Unresolved

Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

3 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Feb 4, 2026

Essential Widgets [essential-widgets] < 3.0.1

CVE-2026-0867 · Fixed in v3.0.1
Nov 26, 2025

Essential Widgets [essential-widgets] < 2.3

CVE-2025-67543 · Fixed in v2.3
Sep 20, 2021

Essential Widgets [essential-widgets] < 1.9

CVE-2021-24752 · Fixed in v1.9

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.2.1
Last Updated: Jun 18, 2026
Requires WP: 5.9+
Tested Up To: 7.0.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Catch Themes

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.5
Reviews: 2
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

categories pages posts tags widgets

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Essential Widgets is for WordPress site owners who want to add customizable widgets to their website. It solves the lack of visually attractive, easy-to-customize widget options by providing 7 essential widget types with various customization settings.