This widget is a perfect solution to a problem that never should have existed.

People at wordpress, can you please stop changing admin? We cannot work if you change the things all the time. We don't like blocks and we have made it clear that we want some things to stay classic. Please consider utilities that help such as check boxes for bulk delete menus! Godness it has taken so many years for such a simple thing! It was very much appreciated but please let Classic view as it is! We cannot work efficiently and we don't have time to start learning from scratch. We are very old to do it. I'm great fan of WP since 2007, I have stop using any other platform since then. I want the look and feel on admin as it is! Pleaseeeeeeee

Thank you to the dev team for this! Works perfectly 🙂

The WordPress transition to block widgets breaks many custom classic widgets. Thankfully, the WordPress team developed this plugin to restore classic widgets. However, it would be better if the new block widget system considered classic widgets more carefully.

I ran an agency who's been using Gutenberg for all of our clients since it's launched. But I honestly feel using blocks for widget is a downgrade. Widget supposed to be consistent. I don't want my Footer and Sidebar to be a Body Content 2.0. I'll definitely install this on all of my old and future sites.

I activated this plugin and now a blank page comes up when I go to edit the page. If I deactivate it, the new block widget editor just rolls and never finishes loading. I can't edit my widgets at all because neither the plugin nor the new editor is working. Very frustrating. UPDATE: I'm not sure if this is actually related but once I removed some old plugins that I was not actually using this plugin worked perfectly. 4 stars for the issues I had but happy with it once it began to work.