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.
These wordpress changes are annoying, visually confusing. Horrible
Wow. What a shock to see the block widgets--especially as I am using the Classic Editor by preference. I don't like the block widgets--I can't see what I'm doing. Thanks so much for saving us from block widgets. Now I can get back to editing my sidebar and bottom widgets.
How awful are these new widgets that we would have to spend hours setting up where we used to do it in minutes?
Block widgets were a nightmare for my non-technical clients. This put everything back to basics (as does the Classic Editor plugin) and makes it so much easier for users that don't work above an intermediate technical level.
Are we going to have to stop calling it WordPress and start calling it BlockPress???
This plugin is indispensable to fix the monstrosity of the Block-based Widgets Editor in WordPress 5.8.
I could not figure out what happened to Widgets. Finally ran across a Youtube video for adding Custom Sidebars. While adding the Plugin and activating it, it mentioned that there was Standard Widget plugin to fix the WordPress update. Installed it and amazing all fixed.
Honestly thought my site was corrupted and I had fix my database or to go to a backup copy. Lost days of work because of this. This kind of thing reduces my faith in using WordPress for my websites. Compatibilities issues and updates scare the hell out of me. Its like the Blue Screen of death with Windows. Then on top of this we have to worry about hackers, viruses and ransomware.
Updates are a necessary evil. I get it! There has to be a protocol or procedure for preventing and communicating these problems.
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“Classic Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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0.2
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0.1
Initial release.
