Is Custom Sidebars free?

Yes, Custom Sidebars is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Custom Sidebars?

Custom Sidebars has 100K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Custom Sidebars alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Custom Sidebars include Widgets for Google Reviews, Blocksy Companion, Widget Importer & Exporter. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Custom Sidebars work with the latest WordPress?

Custom Sidebars has been tested up to WordPress 6.9.4. It requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+.

Is Custom Sidebars well supported?

Custom Sidebars has a 100% support resolution rate based on 2 recent support threads on WordPress.org.

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Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager

Name: Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager
Rating: 4.7 (1028 reviews)
Author: WebFactory

Flexible sidebars for custom classic widget configurations on any page or post. Create custom sidebars with ease!

By WebFactory·Widget·Free

4.7(1,028 reviews)

·100K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago

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As of April 2026, Custom Sidebars is a WordPress widget plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 1,028 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.

4.7/51,028 reviews

100K+active installs

100%resolved

16 yearssince 2010

Overview

Manage and replace sidebars and other classic widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager.

Make custom sidebar configurations and be able to choose what classic widgets display on each page or post of your site.

Need to make a widget sticky or fixed? Try our free WP Sticky Anything plugin.

Custom Sidebars works ONLY with the classic widgets screen that was used in WordPress before version 5.8. If you want to use it with version 5.8 (and above) you have to install the official Classic Widgets plugin, or enable the classic widgets interface yourself. Once the classic widgets screen is activated the plugin will work the same as before.

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Recent Reviews

Perfect plugin

by hurtadodoo·1 month ago

Sticky panel plugin is perfect. It keeps my CTA visible without breaking the layout, even on long pages.

Works OK

by ws24·6 months ago

I have indiv. widgets for indiv. pages, setting this up works OK with this plugin. Also together with Polylang for different languages. One remark: the ads in the Widgets overview are a bit too large….

This topic was modified 6 months ago by ws24.

Broke the site.

by rivmanbx·1 year ago

Installing and activating “this” plugin, add a layer of blur canvas on whole admin pages (all pages). We can’t click on anything. The plugin can be disabled from dashboard, the only way to regain control of the website is to delete (for good) this masterpiece of software….
Sadly, not only the name has changed, the developpers also.
This is a bad joke….

crashed the site

by michaeljamisontttttttttttttt·3 years ago

I installed, activated and it crashed the site. POS

seems not compatible

by obsidiaan·3 years ago

If it works, it would be a great plugin however I encountered two major issues.
– When entering existing categories, the plugin cannot find them. they will not show up in the list.
– When setting the filter on what page & categorie to show the sidebar, it will ignore these filter settings and will replace the sidebar everywhere.