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 31, 2021
Oh my word I just hate this new widget block.. it is slow and stupid! Can someone just tell those guys to put it back the way it was.. anyhoo.. thank you soooo much for this plugin - I'm so happy to see the 'classic' widgets 😅😅😅😅😅😅
August 28, 2021
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
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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.