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Possibly abandoned Tested up to 2.9.2 #4 in reader

Subscribe Widget

Important: Before plugin install make sure that folders can be created by wordpress in your blog directory (root directory of the blog). Or you can create it yourself. Folders name should be: subscribe-widget…

Active installs100+100+ tier
Downloads · 30d94▲ +32.4% vs prev. 30d
Rating—0 reviews
Health score25/100At risk
All-time downloads40.1KSince Apr 2009
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 2.8PHP any
Downloads · 7d19• 0% week over week
Our verdict

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Subscribe Widget shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 16 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (100+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 16 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 2.9 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

4812Jul 6Aug 19Oct 3
Yesterday5
Daily average (1y)2
Peak day17Sep 14, 2026
Last 12 months635

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Subscribe Widget stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
reader >100 3,179 Best reader plugins →
rss >100 1,733 Best rss plugins →
subscribe >100 1,682 Best subscribe plugins →
twitter >100 3,806 Best twitter plugins →
widget >100 10,000 Best widget plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 2.0100.0%

About Subscribe Widget

From the official readme · v2.0.4

Description

Important: Before plugin install make sure that folders can be created by wordpress in your blog directory (root directory of the blog). Or you can create it yourself. Folders name should be: subscribe-widget; permissions: 0777.

Subscribe-Widget is a free wordpress plugin, which was designed to be used by all bloggers wishing to inform readers about specific information, in a fast and reliable way. This plug-in will create: rss2, comments rss, twitter and feedburner icons on your blog sidebar. These icons will in turn lead readers to your rss, twitter, feedburner and comments rss, accordingly, readers will tehn be able to find the latest news on your blog. If you want you can disable these icons one by one and only leave those which are needed. To enable the twitter and feedburner icons, one should have acounts on www.twitter.com and www.feedburner.com, as the plugin creates links to these blog accounts.

Subscribe-Widget has been dessogned to be very practical, as the blog admin allows for one to be able to choose your icons‘ width and height, allows for one to be able to write a title (which will appear above the icons), one will also be able to choose hwo to align the icons (left, center, right), as well as beign able to disable these icons one by one. Should you be struggling to find the right icon, you can also upload one by yourself. Go to: plugins directory /wp-content/plugins/subscribe-widget/images/. New uploaded icons may vary in size, as the Subscribe-Widget plugin will resize the icon to the needed width or height, however images should be no smaller then 50×50 pixels. So, by choosing to use this plug-in, one can choose how to display your icons, as it is all up to you, the blogger.

Now you can use subscribe icons anywhere on the theme. Only thing is, you should use this code: <?php if( function_exists(sw_displayOnTheTheme()) ){ sw_displayOnTheTheme(); } ?>. Put it on the needed theme file, check the checkbox on “Show ‘Subscribe Icons’ on the theme” and it will show the images on the theme, but will disable images on the widget. In some cases, there should be some styling done on the theme, to show those images correctly; because the themes are different, and styling can’t be made for all of them.

Important to note: Images will be resized, firstly by width and then by height. If images width will be smaller then selected, then image will be not resized. The same applies to the image height.

Plugins idea author: http://www.computersafetytip.com

Licence

Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a small donation for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉

Good luck!

P.S. Sorry for my bad english. 🙂

Installation

  1. Download subscribe-widget plugin from www.itlastnews.com and unzip it.
  2. Upload the folder subscribe-widget to your WP plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Activate the Subscribe widget plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress admin
  4. Go to Appearance: Widgets, Add widget Subscribe widget and Save Changes
  5. After the page reloads on the widget Subscribe widget at right, click Edit, set all the information and select images.
  6. Click Done and Save Changes to the sidebar from the button bellow
  7. You are ready, check the subscribers buttons in the sidebar of your favorite WordPress blog

Screenshots

Administration interface in WordPress 2.
Administration interface in WordPress 2.
Administration interface in WordPress 2.
Administration interface in WordPress 2.
Plugin interface in WordPress 2.
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FAQ

Subscribe Widget: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 4, 2026

Is Subscribe Widget free?

Yes. Subscribe Widget is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Subscribe Widget safe to use in 2026?

Subscribe Widget shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 16 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Subscribe Widget?

Subscribe Widget is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 40,051 times since it launched in April 2009. It was downloaded 94 times in the last 30 days.

Does Subscribe Widget work with WordPress 7.1?

Subscribe Widget is officially tested up to WordPress 2.9.2, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was Subscribe Widget last updated?

The latest version, 2.0.4, was released on June 11, 2010 (16 years ago).

Who makes Subscribe Widget?

Subscribe Widget is developed and maintained by kestasm.

What are the best alternatives to Subscribe Widget?

The most popular alternatives to Subscribe Widget are PDF Viewer Block for Gutenb… (10K+ installs), Simple Ebook Viewer (400+ installs) and Scribd Doc Embedder (200+ installs).

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