Essential Widgets

About Essential Widgets

Essential Widgets is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to create and customize different widgets for your website. With options like Archives, Authors, Categories, Menus, Pages, Posts, and Tags, you can display important information in an attractive and dynamic way. You can easily translate the plugin using your WordPress.org account on translate.wordpress.org.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Essential Widgets?

Essential Widgets is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to create and add interesting widgets to your website. It provides essential widgets with high customization options to make your website more attractive and welcoming.

How many widgets does Essential Widgets offer?

The free Essential Widgets plugin allows you to create 7 different interesting widgets on your website. All 7 widgets come with many customization options and are very easy to use.

What kind of customization options are available for the Archives widget?

The Archives widget offers various customization options including choosing a title, limiting the number of posts, selecting the archive type, post type, and order.

Can I display author information with Essential Widgets?

Yes, the Authors widget allows you to show a list of authors on your website, the number of posts, and select the feed type.

What features does the Categories widget include?

The Categories widget, supported by Essential Widgets Pro, offers customizable options such as the widget title, taxonomy option, order option, number of categories to show, display as a list or none, number of posts to display, sort by option, and display as text or image.

Changelog

2.2.1 (Released: April 10, 2024)

Compatibility check up to version 6.5

2.2 (Released: November 15, 2023)

Compatibility check up to version 6.4

2.1 (Released: November 19, 2022)

Compatibility check up to version 6.1

2.0 (Released: February 24, 2022)

Compatibility check up to version 5.9

1.9 (Released: September 15, 2021)

Bug Fixed: Security issue on ajax calls (Reported by: Erwan – WPScan)

1.8 (Released: August 05, 2021)

Added: EW Blocks
Bug Fixed: More options toggle button issue in Widgets page
Compatibility check up to version 5.8
Updated: add_filter hook to ‘block_categories_all’ since ‘block_categories’ is deprecated since 5.8

1.7.4 (Released: March 07, 2021)

Compatibility check up to version 5.7

1.7.3 (Released: October 13, 2020)

Replaced join with implode as join(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated (Reported by: chrisfurness)

1.7.2 (Released: August 19, 2020)

Bug Fixed: Issue in add new theme page

1.7.1 (Released: May 08, 2020)

Added: French translation by Charles GIRARDIN

1.7 (Released: March 17, 2020)

Compatibility check up to version 5.4

1.6 (Released: November 12, 2019)

Compatibility check up to version 5.3

1.5 (Released: June 04, 2019)

Added: Option to turn off Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs
Compatibility check up to version 5.2

1.4.1 (Released: April 09, 2019)

Updated: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs displaying code

1.4 (Released: February 21, 2019)

Compatibility check up to version 5.1

1.3 (Released: December 12, 2018)

Added: Plugin action link
Added: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs in Add themes and Add plugins page respectively
Added: Styles for Author/Archive/Categories Widget
Added: Themes by Catch Themes section under Themes panel in customizer
Compatibility check up to version 5.0

1.2.2 (Released: August 24, 2018)

Bug Fixed: Upgrade links to Pro plugin on sidebar (Reported by: katilynn)

1.2.1 (Released: August 15, 2018)

Bug Fixed: Enqueue widget scripts in customizer

1.2 (Released: July 05, 2018)

Added: Widget switch button
Updated: Dashboard

1.1 (Released: May 07, 2018)

Bug fixed: widget_categories, widget_archives class added
Compatibility check up to version 4.9.5
Update: Moved domain from catchthemes.com to catchplugins.com

1.0.1

Added: Added span to show count
Compatibility check up to version 4.9.4
Enhanced Security: Replaced wp_filter_post_kses with wp_kses_post

1.0.0

Initial Release