10 Best Icon Widget Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Icon Widget has 4,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Icon Widget
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Mobile Contact Bar
Closest match4.6 (30) 10,000+ active installsAllow your visitors to contact you via mobile phones, or access your site's pages instantly.
Shares the icon tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated June 15, 2026.
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5.0 (29) 40,000+ active installsEasily add SVG icons and graphics to the WordPress block editor.
Shares the icon tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated January 18, 2026.
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Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
4.9 (36) 90,000+ active installsAdds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Shares the FontAwesome tag on WordPress.org. About 23 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.3 (29) 20,000+ active installsSearch Meter tracks what your readers are searching for on your site. View full details of recent searches or stats for the last day, week or month.
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated December 3, 2025.
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4.7 (27) 20,000+ active installsEasy, simple setup to add a PayPal Donation button as a Widget or with a shortcode.
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.5 (97) 30,000+ active installsShow and hide widgets on specific posts, pages and sections of your site.
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 7.5 times the installs, last updated May 18, 2026.
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4.9 (50) 30,000+ active installsAn enhanced version of the text widget that supports Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes and PHP with linkable widget title.
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 7.5 times the installs, no update since July 17, 2024.
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Content Aware Sidebars – Fastest Widget Area Plugin
4.9 (724) 30,000+ active installsDisplay new sidebars on any post, page, category etc. Works with Classic Widgets, Block Widgets, and all themes!
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 7.5 times the installs, last updated December 9, 2025.
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4.4 (38) 10,000+ active installsGenerate QR Code through Widgets and Shortcodes, without any dependencies.
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated May 17, 2026.
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4.8 (40) 20,000+ active installsExtend Gutenberg Reusable Blocks feature with a complete admin panel, widgets, shortcodes and PHP functions.
Shares the widget tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
Switching from Icon Widget: common questions
What is the best alternative to Icon Widget?
Mobile Contact Bar is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Icon Widget alternative has the most users?
Advanced Custom Fields, with 90,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Icon Widget alternative is rated highest?
Content Aware Sidebars, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 724 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Icon Widget alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Icon Widget score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Icon Widget on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Mobile Contact Bar is the closest match to Icon Widget by the data we track, and Advanced Custom Fields has the widest reach with 90,000+ active installs. Reusable Blocks Extended shipped the most recent release, on August 28, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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