Widget CSS Classes
Add custom classes and ids plus first, last, even, odd, and numbered classes to your widgets.
4.9(74 reviews)
·90K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Widget CSS Classes is a WordPress css plugin with 90K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 74 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
4.9/574 reviews
90K+active installs
1.1M+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Widget CSS Classes gives you the ability to add custom classes and ids to your WordPress widgets
Please note that this plugin doesn’t enable you to enter custom CSS. You’ll need to edit your theme’s style.css or add another
plugin that allows you to input custom CSS.
This plugin also adds additional classes to widgets to help you style them easier:
- widget-first: added to the first widget in a sidebar
- widget-last: added to the last widget in a sidebar
- widget-odd: added to odd numbered widgets in a sidebar
- widget-even: added to even numbered widgets in a sidebar
- widget-#: added to every widget, such as widget-1, widget-2
Features
- Adds a text field to a widget for defining a class
- You can specify multiple classes by putting a space between them
- Optionally adds checkboxe…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Not working on WordPress 5.8
by Pouria Amjadzadeh·4 years ago·1 reply
Wordpress released new style of widget management. this lovely plugin not working on new version 🙁
Good
by Kasp·5 years ago
works
Invaluable!
by andiszek·5 years ago
This is a great and invaluable help for us frontend developers! the plugin lets you easily add your classes to any widget.
thank you for developing it!
Superb!
by Damiaan van Vliet·6 years ago·1 reply
A very useful plug-in for me as a front-end developer.
It’s very easy now to address directly a widget with CSS code instead of all kind of different classes to use.
Thanks very, very much!
Great! :)
by xszejdi·6 years ago
Great! 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 58Yesterday: 71This week: 426Period total: 35K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.5
97.9%
Other
2.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.5.4.1
- Tested with WP 5.5.
- Update plugin owner.
Contributors
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