For more information about the brand new Widgets system, please have a look at this blog post.
All of the previous sidebar stuff in Vanilla and Lavender have been moved into this widget, allowing you to drag and drop them wherever you please.
This plugin now comes bundled with core, and provides the following 7 plugins: 'HTML', 'Markdown', 'Recent Replies', 'Active Users', 'Moderators', 'Forum Stats', and 'Recent Posts'. Any PR's to add additional widgets are welcome, or just use this as a base to start your own 
Fork it on Github.
Installed it, but not appears...
There's no need to install, it comes with the latest nodebb. Just git pull and ./nodebb upgrade
Updated it, still not appears.
did you git pull first? I looked at your page I don't see it
after you pull and update, go to the ACP and click on Themes, and then the Widgets tab
Im now getting erro 502
what was the error that you got when you ran git pull?
and you ran ./nodebb upgrade after right?
When i put git pull
i get Already up-to-date.
@psychobunny What version of this is compatible with 0.5.x?
@psychobunny said in [nodebb-widget-essentials] Essential Widgets:
For more information about the brand new Widgets system, please have a look at this blog post.
For whatever it may be worth, the link to the blog post above is redirecting to https://nodebb.org rather than
the blog address presented upon pointer hover.
Updated this plugin for bs5 and integrated the custom popular tags widget code that we used on this forum into the plugin. It will be usable without using custom css/js in ACP. It also changes based on skin since colors are no longer hardcoded. Latest version is installed on this forum
