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.
Thank god for this. Was shocked when I saw the new block based widget area. Absolutely hate it!
Works great - thanks very much!
Thank goodness there is an antidote to the new widgets page! I cannot fathom the new version, when the old version is so much clearer and easier to understand. All those little icons which are incomprehensible...! What is wrong with old fashioned worded names for widgets?
Thank you for making this. We hand-code some of our advertising banners using widgets along the sidebar as a way of bypassing ad blockers. However, with the new WordPress update (5.8) this plugin caused issues with my RSS feed not sending out via our email provider. It took a bit of time to point the finger to this plugin, but as soon as I disabled it, the RSS feed worked fine again. Hopefully, this will be updated soon so I needn't toggle it on and off as I rearrange ad banners. Thanks for all your work!
Pleased we can restore to the old method. I've come to like Gutenberg for layouts for day to day work, but why use this method for arranging widgets?? Stupid.
Thank You! What a relief to be able to have the Widget area restored to its original excellent design. The Gutenberg Blocks just don't make the grade. It's twice as much work. WordPress core used to make sense, now it doesn't. Why take something that worked so well and mess it up for the people who use WordPress. Not just developers and designers but users of WordPress.
I won't be surprised if there are two versions of WordPress. 1)The original WordPress core that went from a blogging platform to becoming the most used software worldwide. 2) The Gutenberg WordPress. A Block System with blank pages and hidden features that only the people who created them know where they are and what they do and how to operate them.
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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.
