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

September 7, 2021
I am using this plugin with xstore theme and it really works great. I do like widgets should be remain old style as it was previously. Thanks for this plugin it really saved some of my time to find solution individually.
September 5, 2021
Saves the day from the evil Gutenberg. Just works well. Could do manual codeing to disable blocks, But this plugin saved the day! Thank You! Simply put Just Works!
September 5, 2021
Now everything back to normal.
September 2, 2021
I hate that the WP core dev team has the urge to throw everything known overboard and create new UIs that just suck (never saw a worse pagebuilder then this **** block editor they added with v5). Thank you for restoring that old widget UI!
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Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

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Changelog

0.2

Update filter name.

0.1

Initial release.