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 7, 2021
WTF is going on with you people? Why are you forcing us to use those useless blocks? I don’t want them, not in my editor nor in my widgets. No where. Go. Away. Holy crap. It’s getting worse and worse. (Yes, this comment is placed in Support too. It's a cry for help)
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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.