Widget Content Blocks
Edit widget content using the default WordPress visual editor and media uploading functionality. Create widgets like you would create posts or pages.
4.8(60 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Widget Content Blocks is a WordPress widget plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 60 reviews. It has been downloaded 336K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 10% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
4.8/560 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
WYSIWYG Widgets or rich text widgets
This plugin adds so called “Widget Blocks” to your website which you can easily display in your widget areas.
You can create or edit the widget blocks just like you would edit any post or page, with all the default WordPress editing functions enabled. This way, you can use the visual editor that comes with WordPress to format your widgets. You can even use media uploading to insert images and so forth.
Features:
- Create beautiful widgets without having to write HTML code
- Easily insert media into your widget content
- Add headings, lists, blockquotes and other HTML elements to your widgets using the WordPress visual editor
- Use WP Links dialog to easily link to any of your pages or posts from a widget
- Use shortcodes inside your widgets
- Translat…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Excellent
·1 year ago
Just works exactly how you’d like it to work.
And.. easy to work with for editors, because they don’t have to deal with the widgets section to make a change, it’s just like editing a post.
Thanks a lot!
Works
by aerta·3 years ago
Brilliant plugin.
Exactly what I needed.
by nullmem·8 years ago
I needed a WYSIWYG editor for widgets for my clients but needed a way to keep them from accidentally deleting the widget along with all the content. This is perfect implementation, thank you to the developer.
- This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by nullmem.
A Lifesaver
by jssilver·8 years ago
I used this to create a custom link widget – the default link widget just didn’t work for me. But I can see that Widget Content Blocks can be used to solve many widget problems. Highly recommended.
Works great with Elementor
by tageins·8 years ago
I use this plugin together with the Elementor page builder, and it works great. The advantage is, that my customers can edit their texts without bothering with the elementor UI, instead just use the usual editor.
This is great!
- This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by tageins.
Download Trends
Today: 52Yesterday: 52This week: 305Period total: 9K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.3
99.3%
Other
0.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.3.11 – February 27, 2026
Version bump – this plugin is still working fine!
Contributors
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