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.
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Are there any settings?
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No, there are no settings. Once activated, this plugin restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets screen and disables the block editor from managing widgets.
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.
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“Classic Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
0.2
Update filter name.
0.1
Initial release.
