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 27, 2021
I'm still mad about guttenberg, but out of sight out of mind. We all know widgets needed some updating... but not like this. Stupid single column blocks....scroll ..scroll.., at least before you could see most widgets at a single glance. Honestly all these changes are probably making a lot of us better developers as we realise were on a different path from wordpress and we look for better ways to build sites.
July 27, 2021
Thank you! Just spent half the night trying to figure out WTF was wrong with my widgets as there was NO notification that this would happen and Gutenberg Widget Block SUCKS!! Now I just have to go to all my client's sites and install the Classic Widget Plugin - EISH!! WP you are costing me time and money 🙁 PLEASE allow for an option re the awful Gutenberg Widget Block
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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

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0.1

Initial release.