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 26, 2021
Thank you for letting us remove part of the worst user unfriendly interfaces known to man-kind. Step backwards. Who-ever is pushing gutenburg most likely working for the competition.
July 25, 2021
It's unbelievable that WP is still pushing the worst editor ever made (Gutemberg) extremely user-unfriendly. Have a look at its review and the reviews of the best alternatives, the old good Classic Editor or Classic Widget. They work fine, with no issues. It's annoying that one has to install those plugins separately, they should be the standard and Gutemberg must be dismissed forever.
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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.