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Widget Options – Advanced Conditional Visibility for Gutenberg Blocks & Classic Widgets
Control your layout with ease but watch for unexpected metadata bloat.
HealthyGrowing
84/100
Users enjoy the intuitive visibility controls despite reports of metadata bloat and Elementor conflicts.
Active installs
~204,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
1,516 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+165%
Growing fast
355 → 938 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +165% in the last year
355/day a year ago→938/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWidget Options is a well-liked conditional visibility plugin for WordPress widgets and blocks that most users find easy and effective, but a notable minority report serious reliability issues including page bloat, Elementor conflicts, and glitchy behavior on complex sites.
What people like
- +Easy to use and intuitive interface×5
- +Free version delivers on its core promise of controlling where widgets appear×4
- +Useful device-based visibility control (e.g. hiding widgets on mobile)×2
- +Support is responsive and resolves issues quickly
Common complaints
- −Plugin injects large metadata bloat into every block on every page and post, even when the Gutenberg block options feature is disabled
- −Causes instability with Elementor's Responsive Mode, requiring full plugin removal to fix
- −Reported glitchy behavior on larger/multi-site setups, including breaking navigation menu links
- −Key visibility controls that were previously free are now locked behind a paid upgrade, and existing widgets may stop displaying without reconstruction
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.41★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,516 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-14★★★★★Awesomeness!Quincy
- 2025-12-22★★★★★Exactly what I was looking forsbanks
- 2025-09-23★★★★★Easy to Use and Works Perfectlymediambev
- 2025-09-03★★★★★Really usefulgreynewt
- 2025-08-04★★★★★Love how easy an intuitive this is!christinahills
- 2025-03-19★★★★★Great Plugintitusraj
- 2025-03-18★★★★★Great plugin, solid supportcockpitseeker
- 2025-03-17★★★★★okuhecker
- 2025-01-14★★★★★Conflict with Elementorstraitsailor
- 2024-09-30★★★★★Worksdarkhorseweb
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload 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.
1,203
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,179
Prior 7-day baseline
1,171
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
23,760
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,358
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+2.0%
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.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.43
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.46 → 4.41★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered