We love widgets. It's a quick and easy way to pack more useful information content in every nook and cranny of a website. Whether social links, forms, recent articles, everything goes.

According to WordPress theme you use, you'll have a ton of useful widgets. But if your theme lacks widget, then you can consider using plugins.

We collected some WordPress plugins that will help you achieve your goals quickly.

To customize the sidebar

Let's start at the beginning. To use the widgets you need to place them somewhere on a sidebar. Many themes offer ready widgets and sidebars. But what if you want different widgets on different pages?

To do this, you will need to create sidebars and assign them to your different posts, pages or custom post type. Don't worry if this is a feature that your WordPress theme doesn't.

1 - Custom Sidebars

custom-sidebars-plugin

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Custom Sidebars offers exactly what you want to display in your custom sidebars, allowing you to assign any widget to a page, article, category, archive, and custom publication type on your site. Just create a new sidebar and globally define where it should be displayed (or assign it to a specific page).

2 - WooSidebars

woosidebars-plugin

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WooSidebars is one of the most popular custom sidebar plugins on the web. Just create new areas on the sidebar and set conditions that determine when a custom widget area should be displayed. This way you can display specific sidebars on an item, page, search results, archives, 404 error pages, and even your shop pages (Products, basket, crate and all).

WordPress Social Plugins

Social media is an important part of marketing and every business that the blog absolutely needs to add links to their social profiles. The most accessible places for your readers where they can find your social links is your sidebar and the footer. Here are some plugins that will help you.

1 - Social Icons Widget by WPZoom

WPZOOM-social-widget

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This handy plugin offers you widgets for social media, Has compatibility that includes 80 social networks, over 400 icons to choose from, it is a great option to add simple square, round, circle, icons simple or tagged socials to your sidebars.

2 - Meks Smart Social Widget

meks-social-widget

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The Meks Smart Social Widget plugin includes simple options for 40 social icons each with different 3 styles to choose from (square, circle and rounded corners). Simply insert the widget, then add some text inside, select a size and shape and add your links. Easy!

Widget for subscription form

Don't miss the opportunity to turn visitors into subscribers! Adding a widget is an easy (and non-invasive) solution to allowing visitors to stay connected to your news. Here are some of the plugins that will help you do that.

1 - WP Subscribe

wp-plugin-subscribe

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« WP Subscribe »Integrates with Aweber, MailChimp and Feedburner so that you can add a subscription box to a sidebar. It has easy options that will allow you to easily add forms, success message, error message and customizations can be added with CSS.

2 - MailPoset Newsletters

mailpoet-plugin-newsletters

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If you want to send emails without a third party service, then try " MailPoset Newsletters ". This plugin uses your accommodation to send emails from your WordPress dashboard. And it comes with a simple sign-up widget that you can insert into any sidebar.

That's it for this plugin list. I hope you find a plugin that will be useful. Feel free to share this list with your friends.