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Classic Widgets

By WordPress Contributors

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

Thanks

August 18, 2021
Thanks for creating this plugin. I found the new widgets page very confusing, so this fixes that.

Saved me a lot of frustration

August 18, 2021
Took me an hour to figure out what happened to the widgets. With the new block version, Wordfence kept throwing errors about the security of my site whenever I tried editing. Finally saw a link to this plugin to go back to the classic editor. All frustration was gone after installing when I saw the familiar interface. Please make this a permanent plugin. The block editor is broken for me and can't be used.

Bastard Gutenberg

August 17, 2021
Thank you, last line of defense against bastard Gutenberg and idiot WordPress maniacs

Life Saver…

August 15, 2021
Brilliant. Pity it was ever needed. Why the [expletive] they had to mess with Widgets I do not know. Classic widgets worked, they were clear, we could add code, it was simple. Which bit of converting them to 'Blocks' was ever going to improve them. It has taken me several hours to unscramble broken sidebars and 'legacy widgets' GRRRRRR.... Please make this plugin a permanent feature. The WordPress team need to understand how much many of us HATE blocks and don't need them.
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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

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0.1

Initial release.

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