Title: Essential Widgets
Author: Catch Themes
Published: <strong>2017 年 11 月 22 日</strong>
Last modified: 2026 年 5 月 26 日

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# Essential Widgets

 作者：[Catch Themes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catchthemes/)

[下载](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/essential-widgets.3.1.zip)

 * [详情](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/essential-widgets/#description)
 * [评价](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/essential-widgets/#reviews)
 *  [安装](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/essential-widgets/#installation)
 * [开发进展](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/essential-widgets/#developers)

 [支持](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/essential-widgets/)

## 描述

Essential Widgets – a free WordPress plugin for widgets allows you to create and
add interesting widgets on your website to make it more attractive and welcoming.
Essential Widgets stays true to the essence of its name and offers exactly what 
you expect from a widgets plugin—all the “essential” widgets for your website. The
plugin has been crafted beautifully to draw the extra attention to the important
parts of your website. Essential Widgets provides you with the ability to have more
control over the widgets with the various customization options. This free WordPress
plugin for widgets allows you to create 7 different interesting widgets on your 
website. All the 7 widgets provided to you comes with so many customization options
and are very easy to use. So, with Essential Widgets plugin, customize the interesting
widgets your way and display them anywhere you want on your website to make it more
dynamic.

 1. EW: Archives
     The Archives widget comes with various customization options. Choose
    a title, limit the number of posts, select the archive type, post type, order and
    more with the Archives widget.
 2. EW: Authors
     Displaying the author’s information is kind of a must-have feature
    if your website has multiple authors. Our new WordPress widgets plugin allows you
    to add Authors widget. With this widget, you can show the list of the authors on
    your website, the number of posts, select feed type, and more.
 3. EW: Categories
     Essential Widgets Pro supports Categories widget. The widget provides
    you with various customizable options such as the title of the widget, taxonomy
    option, order option, number of categories to show, display as a list or none, 
    number of posts to display, sort by option, select feed type ton display and display
    as text or image.
 4. EW: Menus
     Bored with the same default menu? Our new WordPress plugin for widgets,
    Essential Widgets Pro supports Menus widget. With the Menus widget filled with 
    various customization options, you can display your menus elegantly anywhere you
    want on your website.
 5. EW: Pages
     Display a list of pages with the Pages widget. With various customization
    options being provided to you, you can showcase the pages that are more important
    on your website wherever you want with Essential Widgets Pro.
 6. EW: Posts
     Essential Widgets Pro supports Posts widget. With the widget and its
    customizable options, you can easily display a list of posts on your website. You
    can add a title, select the post type, number of items to display, order, sort 
    by, and more.
 7. EW: Tags
     And last, but definitely not the least, the Tags widget. You can display
    a list of tags as cloud or list, select the order of the tags, sort by option and
    the number of items to be displayed. The widget also provides you with more customization
    options including the unit, separator, search, text type, and more.

### Translations

To translate the plugin, use translate.wordpress.org (GlotPress). You only need 
your WordPress.org account to join the collaborative translation project.

You can translate Essential Widgets on [translate.wordpress.org](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/essential-widgets/).

## 屏幕截图

 * [[
 * Archives
 * [[
 * Authors
 * [[
 * Categories
 * [[
 * Menus
 * [[
 * Pages
 * [[
 * Posts
 * [[
 * Tags

## 区块

该插件提供了 7 个区块.

 *   EW Archive
 *   EW Author
 *   EW Post
 *   EW Menu
 *   Ew Block Ew Tags
 *   Ew Block Ew Category
 *   Ew Block Ew Page

## 安装

The easy way (via Dashboard) :

 * Go to Plugins > Add New
 * Type in the **Essential Widgets** in Search Plugins box
 * Click Install Now to install the plugin
 * After Installation click activate to start using the **Essential Widgets**
 * Go to **Widgets** from Dashboard menu
 * Use your desired widgets in your desired widget areas

Not so easy way (via FTP) :

 * Download the **Essential Widgets**
 * Unarchive **Essential Widgets** plugin
 * Copy folder with `essential-widgets.zip`
 * Open the ftp `\wp-content\plugins\`
 * Paste the plug-ins folder in the folder
 * Go to admin panel => open item “Plugins” => activate **Essential Widgets**
 * Go to **Widgets** from Dashboard menu
 * Use your desired widgets in your desired widget areas

## 评价

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/191205eced5f31b961f30b0de26ce2f8a15e468a7128675653a8299fc944a689?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[alot of useful widgets but in the paid version](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alot-of-useful-widgets/)󠁿

 [KJA4U](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kja4u/) 2021 年 2 月 19 日

A lot of useful widgets but in the paid version. The free one is limited.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4817e77d1cb9f1087a53714e759be98356b83f0cc7f381caf46adf1e0ecd8a19?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excellent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-9556/)󠁿

 [adminmaw](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adminmaw/) 2020 年 8 月 15 日

Excellent

 [ 阅读所有2条评价 ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/essential-widgets/reviews/)

## 贡献者及开发者

「Essential Widgets」是开源软件。 以下人员对此插件做出了贡献。

贡献者

 *   [ Catch Themes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catchthemes/)
 *   [ Catch Plugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catchplugins/)
 *   [ Sakin Shrestha ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sakinshrestha/)
 *   [ Pratik Shrestha ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pratikshrestha/)
 *   [ Mahesh Maharjan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maheshmaharjan/)

[帮助将「Essential Widgets」翻译成简体中文。](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/essential-widgets)

### 对开发感兴趣吗?

您可以[浏览代码](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-widgets/)，
查看[SVN仓库](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/essential-widgets/)，或通过[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/essential-widgets/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss)
订阅[开发日志](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/essential-widgets/)。

## 更新日志

#### 3.1 (Released: May 26, 2026)

 * Bug Fixed: PHP fatal error in Tags block — undefined variable used as callable
 * Bug Fixed: Posts widget href attribute missing quotes around URL (invalid HTML)
 * Bug Fixed: Scripts now correctly load in the footer across admin and public pages
 * Bug Fixed: Deprecated wp-editor block script dependency replaced with wp-block-
   editor
 * Bug Fixed: Several strings were untranslatable due to wrong or missing text domain
 * Code: Various code quality improvements (strict comparisons, output escaping,
   i18n)
 * Compatibility check up to version 7.0

#### 3.0.1 (Released: January 26, 2026)

 * Bug Fixed: Cross-site Scripting (Reported by Muhammad Yudha – DJ)

#### 3.0 (Released: January 15, 2026)

 * Bug Fixed: Mismatched text domain
 * Bug Fixed: Missing $domain parameter in function
 * Bug Fixed: missing_direct_file_access_protection
 * Bug Fixed: Processing form data without nonce verification
 * Bug Fixed: WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags
 * Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
 * Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
 * Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
 * Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
 * Bug Fixed: WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
 * Compatibility check up to version 6.9

#### 2.3 (Released: November 19, 2025)

 * Bug Fixed: Cross-Site Scripting via the `title` parameter in widget shortcodes(
   Reported by Mdr https://patchstack.com)

#### 2.2.2 (Released: May 13, 2025)

 * Bug Fixed: Translation loading
 * Compatibility check up to version 6.8

#### 2.2.1 (Released: April 10, 2024)

 * Compatibility check up to version 6.5

#### 2.2 (Released: November 15, 2023)

 * Compatibility check up to version 6.4

#### 2.1 (Released: November 19, 2022)

 * Compatibility check up to version 6.1

#### 2.0 (Released: February 24, 2022)

 * Compatibility check up to version 5.9

#### 1.9 (Released: September 15, 2021)

 * Bug Fixed: Security issue on ajax calls (Reported by: Erwan – WPScan)

#### 1.8 (Released: August 05, 2021)

 * Added: EW Blocks
 * Bug Fixed: More options toggle button issue in Widgets page
 * Compatibility check up to version 5.8
 * Updated: add_filter hook to ‘block_categories_all’ since ‘block_categories’ is
   deprecated since 5.8

#### 1.7.4 (Released: March 07, 2021)

 * Compatibility check up to version 5.7

#### 1.7.3 (Released: October 13, 2020)

 * Replaced join with implode as join(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated(
   Reported by: chrisfurness)

#### 1.7.2 (Released: August 19, 2020)

 * Bug Fixed: Issue in add new theme page

#### 1.7.1 (Released: May 08, 2020)

 * Added: French translation by Charles GIRARDIN

#### 1.7 (Released: March 17, 2020)

 * Compatibility check up to version 5.4

#### 1.6 (Released: November 12, 2019)

 * Compatibility check up to version 5.3

#### 1.5 (Released: June 04, 2019)

 * Added: Option to turn off Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs
 * Compatibility check up to version 5.2

#### 1.4.1 (Released: April 09, 2019)

 * Updated: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs displaying code

#### 1.4 (Released: February 21, 2019)

 * Compatibility check up to version 5.1

#### 1.3 (Released: December 12, 2018)

 * Added: Plugin action link
 * Added: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs in Add themes and Add plugins page
   respectively
 * Added: Styles for Author/Archive/Categories Widget
 * Added: Themes by Catch Themes section under Themes panel in customizer
 * Compatibility check up to version 5.0

#### 1.2.2 (Released: August 24, 2018)

 * Bug Fixed: Upgrade links to Pro plugin on sidebar (Reported by: katilynn)

#### 1.2.1 (Released: August 15, 2018)

 * Bug Fixed: Enqueue widget scripts in customizer

#### 1.2 (Released: July 05, 2018)

 * Added: Widget switch button
 * Updated: Dashboard

#### 1.1 (Released: May 07, 2018)

 * Bug fixed: widget_categories, widget_archives class added
 * Compatibility check up to version 4.9.5
 * Update: Moved domain from catchthemes.com to catchplugins.com

#### 1.0.1

 * Added: Added span to show count
 * Compatibility check up to version 4.9.4
 * Enhanced Security: Replaced wp_filter_post_kses with wp_kses_post

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial Release

## 额外信息

 *  版本 **3.1**
 *  最后更新：**1 天前**
 *  活跃安装数量 **10,000+**
 *  WordPress 版本 ** 5.9 或更高版本 **
 *  已测试的最高版本为 **7.0**
 *  PHP 版本 ** 7.4 或更高版本 **
 *  语言
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-widgets/)
 * 标签
 * [categories](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[pages](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)
   [posts](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[tags](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tags/)
   [widgets](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [高级视图](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/essential-widgets/advanced/)

## 评级

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## 贡献者

 *   [ Catch Themes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catchthemes/)
 *   [ Catch Plugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/catchplugins/)
 *   [ Sakin Shrestha ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sakinshrestha/)
 *   [ Pratik Shrestha ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pratikshrestha/)
 *   [ Mahesh Maharjan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maheshmaharjan/)

## 支持

有话要说吗？是否需要帮助？

 [查看支持论坛](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/essential-widgets/)

## 捐助

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