Classic Widgets is an official plugin maintained by the WordPress team that restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets settings screens. It will be supported and maintained until at least 2022, or as long as is necessary.
Once activated, this plugin restores the previous widgets settings screens and disables the block editor from managing widgets. There is no other configuration, the classic widgets settings screens are enabled or disabled by either enabling or disabling this plugin.
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Are there any settings?
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No, there are no settings. Once activated, this plugin restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets screen and disables the block editor from managing widgets.
Whats left to say about the block widgets that hasn't allready been said here. It's utter garbage. Might be the worst WP update i have ever seen.
This plugin fixes things. TY.
Clearly those giving a poor reviews on this plugin are CLUELESS, they are unhappy with the decision by WP to use Blocks to manage Widgets, which is totally understandable, I'm not happy with it either, but they apparently don't understand that they're reviewing a plugin to fix that, not WordPress itself.
THIS PLUGIN allows you to roll-back to the classic method of managing widgets that is much easier and makes so much more sense. And it does this very simply and very well. Lightweight, low overhead, restores the way managing Widgets used to be. Bravo.
To the users who gave this a 1-star review, if you really can't understand what you're doing and how to properly review a plugin, the please don't. Just. Don't. Do. It.
Hello,
First off who decided that block widgets were a good idea? Second why do we have to add another plugin when we should have the opportunity to either choose block widgets (seriously bad idea) or classic widgets without the addition of adding more code to our sites.
Plus your block editor is buggy. You rolled out a version of WordPress that has a lot of invalid code causing time and frustration on the end user who is trying to design websites.
Old saying: If it ain't broke don't fix it or update it with garbage.
Regards.
This is the solution for block widgets.
So glad i found this 'Classic Widget' after spending a lot of time to achieve some simple changes in the my website.
Seems every new step or software upgrade in the development of WordPress these days is a step backward.
Not sure how it looks on your side but this block editor and Gutenberg thing is really a step backward. Please use your time and energy to improve WordPress and not to bring it down
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“Classic Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
0.2
Update filter name.
0.1
Initial release.