Store revisions of widget instances for re-use.
As of April 2026, Widget Favorites is a WordPress widgets plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: One Click Demo Import.
Sometimes you have a certain widget configuration that you need to use over-and-over again.
Widget Favorites provides a way to save a widget instance by name to identify it later
when loading the favorited widget instance into another widget.
Another way to look at this plugin is that it provides (non-automatic) revisions for widgets.
Note that this only adds functionality to widgets managed in the Customizer.
Development of this plugin is done on GitHub. Pull requests welcome. Please see issues reported there before going to the plugin forum.
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Initial release
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