Meta Widget Customizer WordPress Plugin
Adds a customizable meta widget for the sidebar
This plugin provides an alternative to the WordPress Meta widget. It also shows by default the same 5 links (register, login or logout, entries RSS, comments RSS and the link to wordpress.org. But it allows you to hide the ones you do not want to see.
Additionally it allows displaying a few other links: - A password lost link - Edit this page/post link - Dashboard (site admin) link - XHTML validator link
These three links can also be hidden or shown. They will also only display if appropriate (depending on whether the user is logged in, which its rights, the type of page...).
The third improvement is that you can add any number of additional links by selecting a links category to be displayed in the meta box.
Instead of the login/register/password lost links, you can also have a tabbed sub-widget providing all these in-page (not as a link but as a funct
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Usage of Meta Widget Customizer over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 44 to 30 — down 14 (-31.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 30 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 30 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 32 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 32 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 32 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 33 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 34 | -2 |
| December 2023 | 36 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 36 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 36 | -5 |
| September 2023 | 41 | -2 |
| August 2023 | 43 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 44 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 44 | — |
Themes used with Meta Widget Customizer
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Listify |
| 2 | Listify-child |
| 3 | Justgoodnews |
| 4 | Avrora |
| 5 | Newspaper-child |
| 6 | Newspaper |
| 7 | Tml |
| 8 | F2 |
| 9 | Tuto |
| 10 | Cannyon |
| 11 | Enfold |
| 12 | Dynamik-gen |
| 13 | Scoutit |
| 14 | Bizeco |
| 15 | Silver_mag_pro |
| 16 | Vantage |
| 17 | Londonlive |
| 18 | Superna.co.uk |
| 19 | Ionmag |
| 20 | Twentytwelve |
Sites running Meta Widget Customizer
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