Grade B

Fullwidth Templates for Any Theme & Page Builder

Name: Fullwidth Templates for Any Theme & Page Builder
Rating: 4.7 (42 reviews)
Author: Brainstorm Force

⤓ Download v1.2.0 on WordPress.org ↗

by Brainstorm Forceupdated 2025-12-01😴The Napper

It removes the sidebar but might accidentally remove your margins too.

HealthyGrowing

71/100

Users appreciate the simplicity but often struggle with missing padding controls and theme compatibility issues.

Loved24/40

Trustworthy13/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained9/18

Momentum11/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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// Register custom page templates
add_filter( 'theme_page_templates', function( $templates ) {
    $templates['tpl-fullwidth.php'] = __( 'Full Width' );
    $templates['tpl-blank.php']     = __( 'Blank' );
    $templates['tpl-no-sidebar.php'] = __( 'No Sidebar' );
    return $templates;
} );

// Serve the template files from the plugin/snippet folder
add_filter( 'template_include', function( $template ) {
    $page_template = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_wp_page_template', true );

    $map = [
        'tpl-fullwidth.php'  => get_stylesheet_directory() . '/tpl-fullwidth.php',
        'tpl-blank.php'      => get_stylesheet_directory() . '/tpl-blank.php',
        'tpl-no-sidebar.php' => get_stylesheet_directory() . '/tpl-no-sidebar.php',
    ];

    if ( isset( $map[ $page_template ] ) && file_exists( $map[ $page_template ] ) ) {
        return $map[ $page_template ];
    }

    return $template;
} );

Keep in mind:You still need to create the three template files in your theme; the snippet only handles registration and routing.

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Active installs

~35,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+

→ on track for 40k+in ~6 months

Rating

4.7★

42 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+34%

Growing fast

40 → 54 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORnot updated in 6 months

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +34% in the last year

40/day a year ago→54/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Fullwidth Templates for Any Theme & Page Builder is generally well-regarded as a simple, effective solution for removing sidebars and going full-width, but it has notable compatibility gaps with certain themes and page types that can leave users with broken layouts or missing elements.

What people like

+Quick and easy to set up — users report getting full-width pages working in under a minute×5
+Works well for removing sidebars on individual pages and posts, including WooCommerce product pages×4
+Useful for displaying wide content like large data tables that overflow standard templates
+Supports bulk editing of templates across multiple posts at once via WP Admin
+Confirmed to work with specific themes and builders such as Storefront, Blossom Themes, and Beaver Builder×2

Common complaints

−No option to control padding or set a custom width — full-width mode pushes content to the very edge of the screen with zero margins×3
−Compatibility issues with certain themes cause broken layouts (e.g., Draftly theme loses featured images, Muzeum theme layout breaks)×2
−Does not work on all page types — reported failures on WooCommerce store pages and blog archive pages
−"No sidebar" mode removes the comment form, contrary to what the plugin description implies
−Incompatible with the DrawAttention plugin — results in a completely blank page
−Some configurations only show a blank template or a third-party builder template, without a header/footer full-width option

Review trustMostly organic

4.74★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 42 total

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Latest reviews · 42 analyzed

2024-08-13★★★★★Near perfect but not with Draftly andrebell82
2023-10-24★★★★★Removing sidebar doesn't work rudybrinkman
2023-10-04★★★★★I'd love to use this but it didn't work with Deep Theme/WP Bakery Jonibean
2023-01-30★★★★★Die Suche hat ein Ende msfiets
2022-11-14★★★★★Great plugin 90% effective robermix33
2022-06-12★★★★★Works but limited control DanWeaver
2022-03-22★★★★★Awesome FW Template Plugin for themes and BB madzzoni
2022-01-27★★★★★Nice extension, but disables comments Atrejoe1-shot
2021-09-16★★★★★Thank you!obi55
2021-04-09★★★★★Great plugin Colinz

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-12-01v1.2.0
2025-04-15v1.1.1
2020-06-15v1.1.0
2020-04-06v1.0.3
2017-04-27v1.0.2
2017-03-08v1.0.1
2017-03-06v1.0.0

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-8.8%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

33%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

3.16

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

83%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.71 → 4.74★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered