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

August 4, 2021
WTF! The new widget blocks are absolute CRAP - Thank You for screwing up my client's sites, a great help to me, as I move all of my clients to the Avada theme.
August 4, 2021
These wordpress changes are annoying, visually confusing. Horrible
August 3, 2021
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.
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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.