Easily add code snippets in WordPress. Insert header & footer scripts, add PHP code snippets with conditional logic, insert ads pixel code, and more.
- Installs
- 3+ million
- Rating
- 4.9 (1.9K)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
PHP Code Widget
Like the Text widget, but also allows working PHP code to be inserted.
- Active installs
- 70,000+
- #585 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1M
- 1,002,122
- Downloads, 30 days
- 1.8K
- 529 in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- 61 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 years ago
- Mar 30, 2022
- Version
- 2.4
- 8 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | March 30, 2022Not updated for over a year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 5.9.20Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 2.8 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | March 20, 2008 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.7 / 5 from 61 reviews
| 5 stars | 52 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 5 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 3 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The normal Text widget allows you to insert arbitrary Text and/or HTML code. This allows that too, but also parses any PHP code in the text widget and executes it.
This can make it easier to migrate to a widget-based theme. However, this plugin should not be used long term, as anybody with access to edit the widgets on your site will be able to execute arbitrary PHP code.
All PHP code must be enclosed in the standard php opening and closing tags ( <?php and ?> ) for it to be recognized and executed.
Only users with the unfiltered_html role will be allowed to insert unfiltered HTML. This includes PHP code, so users without admin or editor permissions will not be able to use this to execute code, even if they have widget editing permissions.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
There’s some kind of error on line 27!
That error means that your PHP code is incorrect or otherwise broken.
But my code is fine!
No, it’s not. Really.
This widget has no real errors in it, it’s about the simplest widget one can possibly make. Any errors coming out of the “execphp.php” file are errors in code you put into one of the widgets. The reason that it shows the error being in the execphp.php file is because that is where your widget’s code is actually being run.
I have code that works normally in a template but doesn’t work when in the widget?
Code in a template runs in the global context. Code in the widget will run in a function context. Make sure that you declare any global variables as global before attempting to use them.
Latest changelog entry
- After much demand, made it stop throwing a warning in PHP 8. Please consider ceasing usage of this widget on modern sites. Switch to block based themes, or use purpose specific plugins to solve your needs instead of storing PHP code in the database.
Screenshots
The widgets screen showing a PHP code widget in use. 
The output of the widget on the site.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.