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 10, 2021
In Gutenberg Block Widgets it is not possible to set on which page a widget should be visible and it really sucks. This plugin saved me a lot of time. Thanks you so much!
August 10, 2021
Blocks is a mess, I just want to edit my site, I have installed classic editor but my widgets just got to block's very frustrating, please please sort this problem out
August 9, 2021
this plugin is necessary forever! Thank god someone had the foresight to create it! the block editor on widgets is a mess......it completely broke all widgets on 10 of my websites....boom all at once. Thank you for creating this and please please keep it under development forever! just like the 5,000,000 websites that use the Classic Editor. in a matter of months you will have 5,000,000 users of this plugin too! that should tell you something...err...leave the widgets alone or provide a backward facing "fix" to WordPress's idiot move.
August 9, 2021
Why do people make changes for the sake of making a change? When the widget section is perfect and liked by millions, why do you need to change it? After seeing the new CRAP widget section, I thought my website got hacked or there is some severe error. WE DONT NEED THE NEW WIDGET BLOCKS. PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE IT AND RESTORE THE OLDER ONE I.E CLASSIC WIDGET. GOD WILL BLESS YOU ALL THE TIME Thanks
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Contributors & Developers

“Classic Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.2

Update filter name.

0.1

Initial release.