Simple Page Sidebars
Easily assign custom, widget-enabled sidebars to any page.
4.9(54 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Simple Page Sidebars is a WordPress widgets plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 54 reviews. It has been downloaded 457K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 13% this week. Top alternative: One Click Demo Import.
4.9/554 reviews
20K+active installs
457K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Designed for simplicity and flexibility, Simple Page Sidebars gives WordPress users, designers, and developers the ability to assign custom sidebars to individual pages–without making any template changes. Existing sidebars can also be assigned in quick edit and bulk edit modes, helping save you time.
In contrast to some of the more complicated plugins available, Simple Page Sidebars aims for basic, core-like functionality and integration that’s easy to use without polluting your admin panel. And due to the way sidebars are saved, it utilizes built-in WordPress caching, so your site won’t be bogged down with additional queries.
Simple Page Sidebars also ships with a “Widget Area” widget for pulling all the widgets from one sidebar into another.
Benefits
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Excellent and Very Helpful
by twowithink·1 year ago
Excellent and very helpful plugin when you need to quickly create and manage additional sidebars for your pages.
Thank you!
Broken after 5.5.3 – Updated
by nevertrump·5 years ago
Update: Wrote to the developer, he answered quickly. The issue we are seeing appears not to be with Simple Page Sidebars but rather with WordPress 5.6 Core instead. See the ticket where others are having the same issue.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52073
Absolutely awesome plugin up to 5.5.3.
Unfortunately, it no longer works with the latest version of WordPress as of this review (5.6) on 1/8/2021. Hopefully, the developer(s) will have time to upgrade the plugin. In the meantime, those who want to continue to use the plugin will need to downgrade their website to an earlier version. You can use a free plugin called WP Downgrade to do this but it’s a bandaid.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by nevertrump.
Just an update for anyone using this
by messanoir·6 years ago·1 reply
Just wanted to say, that even though the developer is super busy and may not have updated the plugin version specifically for latest WP version, it still works flawlessly. This is a great example of simple coding done right. Nothing that isn’t needed, it just simply works. 🙂
Simple and works sgreat
by Anonymous User·8 years ago
This is simple and works great, and no ads! Thank you! Other sidebar plugins put huge, ugly ads right in the middle of the Widgets screen (Custom Sidebars by WPMU-Dev).
Realy simple ….and works
by hijack61·8 years ago
thanks guys for hard work, excellent plugin, works like a charme
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 23This week: 112Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
97.8%
v1.1
2.3%
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Changelog
1.2.1 – July 27, 2018
- Removed bundled language files in favor of WordPress.org language packs.
1.2.0
- Transferred to Cedaro.
- Updated the Widget Area class constructor to prevent deprecation notices in WP 4.3+.
1.1.8
- Added Spanish translation.
1.1.7
- Added Indonesian translation.
1.1.6
- Prevent quick edit nonces from being submitted when searching or fi…
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