The 5.8 WP update forced the Block Editor upon the widgets screen. I made a minor HTML edit in the Custom HTML widget and pressed the update button. This resulted in "There was an error. Invalid parameter(s): requests". Quitting and reentering the widgets screen got me "The Custom HTML block was affected by errors and may not function properly. Check the developer tools for more details." Using the Block Editor there was no way to publish my edits. It don't work. Message to arrogant Block Editor developers. 1) We are not your beta testers. 2) Error messages like this should never be displayed in a released product. 3) Don't waste my time. The block editor also eliminated user instructions that I had added to the top of the widgets screen. Classic Widgets Plug-in: 5 stars; Block Editor: zero stars

just like firefox and chrome! taking out core items THANK U!!!!

Seriously, while building a brand new site, all I wanted to do was add a title to the latest posts widget. You think the new block editor would make this easy. No. Either there's a bug, or something is conflicting, but I could not find the place to add/modify the title. I don't have time for this. Installed Classic Widgets, done and dusted. I can now get on with creating actual content instead of endlessly fiddling with such things. Just make this and the Classic Editor part of core with toggles for switching and be done with it. Why on this green earth do we need to constantly try to fix something that isn't broken! Add to these things, if you feel you have to, but please, don't take something away that is otherwise working perfectly fine.

This plugin saves my day, every freaking and f**** day. Block-based widgets are THE WORST THING EVER SHOVED DOWN THE THROATS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of wordpress admins, worldwide. They are so destructive, it makes me speechless. Whoever decided that block-based widgets are a good idea has ABSOLUTELY no idea about how WE, THE USERS work. The number of widgets we need just to counter those "improvements" keeps on growing.

Whats left to say about the block widgets that hasn't allready been said here. It's utter garbage. Might be the worst WP update i have ever seen. This plugin fixes things. TY.

Clearly those giving a poor reviews on this plugin are CLUELESS, they are unhappy with the decision by WP to use Blocks to manage Widgets, which is totally understandable, I'm not happy with it either, but they apparently don't understand that they're reviewing a plugin to fix that, not WordPress itself. THIS PLUGIN allows you to roll-back to the classic method of managing widgets that is much easier and makes so much more sense. And it does this very simply and very well. Lightweight, low overhead, restores the way managing Widgets used to be. Bravo. To the users who gave this a 1-star review, if you really can't understand what you're doing and how to properly review a plugin, the please don't. Just. Don't. Do. It.