Title: Widget Wrangler
Author: Jonathan Daggerhart
Published: <strong>Eost 11, 2010</strong>
Last modified: Ebrel 11, 2026

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# widget-wrangler

 * [Details](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-wrangler/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-wrangler/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/widget-wrangler/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-wrangler/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of Ebrel 11, 2026 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great Plugin For Managing Widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-for-managing-widgets/)󠁿

 [Steven Ayers](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevenayers63/) miz Du 19, 2019

I currently use this plugin on over 100 sites. I have been using Widget Wrangler
since 2014 and have found it invaluable. I use it to display specific widgets in
a custom order in the sidebar, footer area, and custom featured content areas. WW
allows me to customize widgets on a per page basis and create a default list of 
widgets to display when creating a new post/page. It has tremendously reduced the
amount of time it takes to change / edit widgets on a page without touching code.
It’s an awesome plugin! -Steven

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### 󠀁[Good and Bad](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-and-bad-6/)󠁿

 [EddieG](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eddieg/) Eost 29, 2017 1 reply

It’s the only plugin to take on the issue of different pages with different sidebars,
and it does a good job. I’m using it on WP 4.8.1 now. However, with virtually no
documentation, you’ll never figure out how to master it. You’ll end up using only
half the functionality.

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### 󠀁[Continues to blow my mind after 36 implementations.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continues-to-blow-my-mind-after-36-implementations/)󠁿

 [ExcellentSP](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siphon/) Gwengolo 3, 2016 1 reply

You regret not using this plugin sooner, you just don’t know it yet.

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### 󠀁[A must install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-must-install-1/)󠁿

 [johnselekta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnselekta/) Gwengolo 3, 2016

This has totally transformed Wordpress into the most flexible package available 
for me now, bravo. All I need now is a dashboard widget for custom widgets and I’m
golden! 11/10 must have extension.

 [ Read all 11 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-wrangler/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Widget Wrangler” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jonathan Daggerhart ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/daggerhart/)

[Translate “Widget Wrangler” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/widget-wrangler)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-wrangler/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/widget-wrangler/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/widget-wrangler/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/widget-wrangler/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **2.4.0**
 *  Last updated **2 months ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  Tested up to **5.5.18**
 *  PHP version ** 5.3 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-wrangler/)
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