Monster Widget
Provides a quick and easy method of adding all core widgets to a sidebar for testing purposes.
5(8 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Monster Widget is a WordPress debug plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 160K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 62% this week. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
5/58 reviews
1.0K+active installs
160K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
The Monster widget consolidates all 13 core widgets into a single widget enabling theme developers to create multiple instances with ease. It has been created to save time during theme development and review by minimizing the steps needed to populate a sidebar with widgets. The Monster widget is not designed for use in production.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Useful
by mythemes·8 years ago
Good job and it is very useful for me
First plugin i install on builds
by peterorpete·10 years ago
Super useful, has most of the development plugins you will need
Works Great
by Brandon Hubbard·10 years ago
This is a great tool for theme testing.
Nice Plugin
by ShapedTheme·10 years ago
Great Widget testing plugin 🙂 Keep up
If you make themes, you need this!
by Dave Romsey (goto10)·11 years ago
This plugin makes it so easy to test widget and sidebar styling in themes. It’s awesome!
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 10This week: 55Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.2.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.3
100.0%
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Changelog
v0.3 – January 5th, 2013
- Added test photograph by directly to the plugin. Thanks to Rarst for the bug report.
- Add a really long select element to the text widget. See _s issue #99.
- Add a smiley to the image caption.
- Remove the “pipe test”.
- Bump version number.
…and 1 more changes
Contributors
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