Currency Converter Widget

77 Quality Score

Active Installs

15/30

With 3,000 active installs it is a niche plugin, well behind the 8,000-install leader YayCurrency, which keeps the popularity score modest at 52/30.

Update Freshness

25/25

It was updated on 2026-06-17 and explicitly supports WordPress 7.0 with PHP 7.4, which earns a perfect 100/25 maintenance score.

User Rating

15/15

A 98/100 average from 88 reviews is excellent and indicates the few users who try it tend to be happy with the result.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved is a red flag for transparency rather than quality: there is simply no public track record of the developer responding to issues.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Tested with WordPress 7.0, requiring only WP 6.0 and PHP 7.4, giving it a maximum 100/15 compatibility rating.

Scores higher than 55% of indexed plugins

About

Free, fast, and beautiful currency converter widget with 170+ currencies, live exchange rates, and 11 widget styles.

Active Installs 2k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-08-26 11:17pm GMT

Requires WordPress 6.0+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 7.4+

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: December 19, 2023

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What It Does

Currency Converter Widget adds a sidebar or widget-area calculator that converts amounts between 170+ currencies using live exchange rates. Site visitors pick source and target currencies, enter an amount, and see the converted value without leaving the page. It comes in 11 visual styles, so it can blend with most theme designs.

Who It's For

This plugin fits any WordPress site that wants a public-facing conversion tool for visitors: travel blogs, tourism operators, forex education sites, freelancer directories, and global SaaS landing pages that show prices in multiple currencies. It is also a reasonable lightweight option for small WooCommerce shops that just need a converter sidebar rather than a full multi-currency checkout system.

Who Should Skip It

If you run a WooCommerce store and need customers to actually pay in a different currency with auto-detected geolocation and checkout switching, skip this and use YayCurrency instead. You should also skip it if you need a REST API or shortcode-driven conversions on product pages; this is a widget-only tool.

The Bottom Line

Currency Converter Widget is a well-maintained, highly rated, and lightweight way to drop a polished currency calculator onto a WordPress site. Its biggest limitations are the small 3,000-install user base and the absence of any public support history, so you are trusting an unproven support channel. For a simple visitor-facing converter it is a solid choice, but WooCommerce sellers should go with YayCurrency.

Pick YayCurrency if you need WooCommerce checkout currency switching with geolocation, not just a sidebar widget.

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce by WBW 77/100

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Stock Ticker 75/100

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Currency Converter Calculator 74/100

Pick Currency Converter Calculator if you want a comparable calculator widget and prefer a plugin with a longer track record of 1,000+ installs.

Exchange Rates Widget 67/100

Pick Exchange Rates Widget if you mainly want to display rate tables and historical charts rather than run interactive conversions.