Place content where your theme delivers widget areas

Essential Widgets Pro adds widgets for categories, menus, posts, and tags. Their settings let you choose what to show and how to arrange it in the widget areas available in your theme.

Set the content and its display

Categories

Set a title, taxonomy, order, category count, and post count. Choose how categories are sorted, whether to display them as a list, which feed type to use, and whether to show them as text or pictures.

Menus

Display a menu in a widget area to make selected links and site sections available in another part of your layout. Placement depends on the widget areas your theme provides.

Posts

Show a post list with settings for its title, post type, number of entries, order, and sorting. Use it to bring selected or recent posts into a visible area of your website.

Tags

Display tags as a cloud or a list, then set their order, sorting, and entry count. Additional settings include the unit, separator, search, and text type.

Other widgets in the Essential Widgets collection

The wider Essential Widgets collection also includes Archives, Authors, and Pages widgets. Archives has controls for its title, post limit, archive type, post type, and order. Authors can show a list of authors, the number of posts, and a selected feed type. Pages provides a configurable way to list important pages.

These widget types suit various site structures. Author and post lists can help visitors view a multi-author publication; menus and page lists can surface business site sections; categories and tags can organize content-heavy sites.

Add and adjust widgets

Install Essential Widgets Pro in WordPress and add the supported widgets to the widget areas where you want them to appear. Choose a widget, enter a title if needed, select the relevant content and ordering options, and save its settings. Review the result on your site and adjust the available options to fit the layout.