Enhanced Text Widget
An enhanced version of the text widget that supports Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes and PHP with linkable widget title.
4.9(50 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Enhanced Text Widget is a WordPress text plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 50 reviews. It has been downloaded 849K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: String locator.
4.9/550 reviews
30K+active installs
849K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => https://tastewp.com/plugins/enhanced-text-widget.
(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the URL)
Note: This is a classic widget type, in order for it to work on the latest version of WordPress you will need Classic Widgets plugin installed on your site.
UPDATE: Plugin ownership changed for this plugin. We are currently evaluating possible enhancements for it. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestions yourself, please let us know in the Support Forum.
An enhanced version of the default text widget where you may have Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes and/or PHP as content with linkable widget title.
Options
- Title
- Title URL
- Widget CSS class
- Co…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.950 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very Helpful, Great Support
by LN-CWM·2 years ago·2 replies
Been using this plugin for years, and we are 100% satisfied. Works as promised, with very little fuss. Amazing support from a free plugin. Many thanks to the developers.
I’ve used and loved this plugin for years!
by trishahdee·3 years ago
This is the best plugin to add PHP via a widget.
Fast and appropriate support…
by crzyhrse·5 years ago·10 replies
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<p class=””>Recent support really good, changing to 5 stars…</p>
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- This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by crzyhrse.
Does the job right
by Guido·7 years ago
Needed a simple widget to display some custom fields somewhere on my website. So added the relevent PHP and it just works as expected. Easy to use.
Still Working on 4.9.x
·7 years ago
I’ve been using this for a very long time on one of my sites when I needed to jerry rig a solution together to display different ad groups on posts based on their category.
I’ve had no issues and it’s still working in 2018!
Download Trends
Today: 39Yesterday: 41This week: 263Period total: 21K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
76.3%
v1.5
15.6%
v1.4
8.0%
Other
0.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.6.7
- Tested with WordPress 6.6
- Minor performance improvements
- Improvements for PHP 8 utilization
Contributors
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