Classic Widgets

Description

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.

FAQ

Are there any settings?

No, there are no settings. Once activated, this plugin restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets screen and disables the block editor from managing widgets.

Reviews

July 24, 2021
We download and that's it. No adjustment. Happy to have a feature imposed on you that you don't really need on wordpress.
July 24, 2021
How ineffective is the new Widgets block editor in WordPress 5.8!!!! Super glad this plugin exists. Luckily only updated 1 site to 5.8. Hope WP will sort out this ugly interface and ridulous way of working with widgets before I need to update the rest of my sites. The previous version worked quite fine. Why change a working system. Luckily I use a page builder to build my pages and not the block editor. Thank you Classic Widgets for being available.
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Contributors & Developers

“Classic Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

0.2

Update filter name.

0.1

Initial release.