Easy
Easy is a multi-functional widget covering most of the native WordPress functions commonly used in templates. You can place almost any part of your content anywhere in your sidebars.
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Easy shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 36/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (20+ active installs)
- No update in 10 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.5 (latest is 7.1)
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Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Easy stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| admin | >100 |
| loop | >100 |
| page | >100 |
| post | >100 |
| widget | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 8 reviews
About Easy
From the official readme · v0.9.9.3Description
Easy is a multi-functional widget covering most of the native WordPress functions commonly used in templates.
You can place almost any part of your content anywhere in your sidebars.
The widget is made out of drag&drop bits (bricks) and is totally up to you what you want to show on your website.
Showcase:
Easy widget has variety of bricks representing the content and its logic. You can make simple or complex layout simply by dragging the bricks in to their slots and define on what cases it has to be shown or not.
Content bricks are:
- title
- content
- featured image
- categories
- tags
- taxonomies
- custom meta
- comments
- author
- date
- shortcode
- post gallery
- sidebar
- WPpagenavi (when installed)
- …
- and even your own content bricks if you like
The resulting content is displayed based on the logic you build the same way as you did the content.
You just drag the logical bricks to their slot and the content will be shown based on that logic.
Logical bricks are:
- Number of posts
- post type chooser
- offset
- hierarchical logic (for pages and alike)
- category filter
- custom meta filter
- post status
- edit link
- permissions
- meta filter
- taxonomy filter
- …
- and even your own logic bricks if you like
In adition to that the result can be designed to your needs. You can add your own classes to the whole widget (the HTML structure) and also to each content brick (a part of the content).
Then again it is totally up to you how you design your website.
Does it reminds you something?
Yes, it is exactly what you do when you design your template; you loop through the post or pages in your template, but this time without touching the code.
All the content and logical bricks are only graphical representation of the WordPress functions.
The aim of this plugin is to speed up common programming work, so we do not have to repeat our selves.
Imagine a website made out of “sidebars” filled with widgets representing the list of last posts, menu, the image gallery, any content that is actually the website.
All built out of widgets that you can re-arrange anyway you or your client like right out of the admin area. That is the main purpose of the widgets anyway, Easy makes it real.
Notice
In order to have the website fast as light even with the Easy plugin heavily in charge use the W3TC caching plugin [1]
Documentation
Easy theme framework
A pure theme with slots (sidebars) for tons of your widgets.
* Easy framework
Compatible with (although not fully covering):
WPML, qTranslate, CCTM, WP-pagenavi, W3TC, fancybox, Posts 2 Posts, Advanced custom fields, Timber and others.
Installation
As usual. If you don’t know how, check out the official how-to.
Changelog
Please if you encounter any misbehavior, let my know on the forum. I'll be happy to fix it! If the widget behaves differently after the upgrade check out the particullar brick, if it hasn't have some new feature(s), which did not exist before. If so, correct values and re-save the widget. Always back up your widgets, do not let the sky fall. Use the Widget saver plugin.
0.9.9.3 (2016-07-13)
- NEW – Container type. The default is general “div” and new types are: “header, footer, aside, section ,.. etc.”. Works only in non-default scafolding, as the default takes the scafold from your own definition when you register sidebar/widget.
0.9.9.2 (2016-07-13)
- NEW – Sticky controll brick
0.9.9.1 (2016-05-11)
- FIX – ACF image – undefined “$value”
0.9.9 (6th May 2o16)
- NEW – Advanced Custom Fields picture ID to Image
- UI contrast
0.9.8
- removed “WP_Widget is deprecated” call (since WP 4.3).. Warning, update if you have WP 4.3up already !
- NEW – widget title position (inside or outside/before(default) the widget result) .. as always check your widgets and resave them if needed.
- NEW – the Text view brick allows you to treat it like post content (keeps line brakes and such)
- NEW – taxonomie view brick has new choice; link to blog page defined in administration
- CHANGE – Warning all blocks like view: wp_pagenavi, taxonomy, previous_post link, next_post link & navigation are rendered after the loop content but INSIDE the widget scafold!
0.9.7
- NEW Serbian translation (translated by: Ogi Djuraskovic from Firstsiteguide)
Screenshots
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FAQ
Easy: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 2, 2026
Is Easy free?
Yes. Easy is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Easy safe to use in 2026?
Easy shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 36/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Easy?
Easy is active on 20+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 27,886 times since it launched in September 2012. It was downloaded 92 times in the last 30 days.
Does Easy work with WordPress 7.1?
Easy is officially tested up to WordPress 4.5.33, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Easy last updated?
The latest version, 0.9.9.3, was released on July 13, 2016 (10 years ago).
Who makes Easy?
Easy is developed and maintained by 2046.
What are the best alternatives to Easy?
The most popular alternatives to Easy are Loginizer (1M+ installs), Redux Framework (900K+ installs) and Admin Menu Editor (300K+ installs).
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