Simple Image Widget
A simple widget that makes it a breeze to add images to your sidebars.
4.5(39 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 8 months agoAs of April 2026, Simple Image Widget is a WordPress media plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 39 reviews. It has been downloaded 854K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
4.5/539 reviews
10K+active installs
854K+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008
Overview
Simple Image Widget is what the name implies — the easiest way to add images to your sidebars. Display advertisements, calls-to-action, or even build a slider based on image widgets.
Despite its simplicity, Simple Image Widget is built with extensibility in mind, making it super easy to spin off new image-based widgets, or customize the widget ouput using the available template hierarchy.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Better than WP native image
by Cyndi·5 years ago
Nice to be able to choose an appropriate grid size.
Customizable and simply great
by ryver·7 years ago
Thanks for creating the simple image widget, it’s great!
I was able to easily customize the template to finally display widgetized bootstrap cards the way I want.
Perfect image widget plugin
by John-Pierre Cornelissen·8 years ago
With the native image widget that has been introduced with WP 4.8 this plugin has become obsolete. Still, this plugin has served me very well, so 5 stars and thank you for that!
- This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by John-Pierre Cornelissen.
cool stuff – best choice for developers!
by usability.idealist·9 years ago·1 reply
Excellent choice for developers. Uses the native WP functions, and thus automatically supports the new responsive image attributes (srcset / sizes) 🙂
The widget template is awesome fun; make it work with Bootstrap 3? No problemo, boss – just add the template to your theme directory, adjust the wp_get_attachment_image() call, and off you go 🙂
Similar to this:
echo wp_get_attachment_image( $image_id, $image_size, false, array( 'class' => 'img-responsive attachment-' . $image_size . ' size-' . $image_size ) );So, if you need flexibility and KNOW what you’re doing – go for it!
cu, w0lf.
Easy to use
by Trek Themes·9 years ago
Fantastic plugin that I use on many sites
Download Trends
Today: 13Yesterday: 9This week: 61Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.4
91.8%
Other
8.2%
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Changelog
4.4.2 – October 12, 2017
- Changed the widget name to “Image (Simple)” to differentiate it from the core image widget introduced in WordPress 4.8.
4.4.1 – September 6, 2016
- Added missing text domains.
4.4.0 – April 22, 2016
- Enabled selective refresh in the Customizer.
- Removed PO and MO files in favor of WordPress.org Language Packs.
- Prevented errors if the main plugin file is…
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