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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

Very, very helpful

December 31, 2021
I almost messed up my site by using the block editor but this plugin fixed it all. Very, very helpful! Thanks for developing this one!

A “Cure” for block editors!

December 20, 2021
I like WordPress and innovative solutions but obviously, block editor is not one of them! At least for power users or productive purposes. I hope that WordPress understands the user's demands and does not kill this practical cure for block editor!

Another plugin to correct wordpress devolutions

December 14, 2021
Some evil minds like to waste our time, spending hours looking for a way to control the display of widgets on specific pages which is no longer possible with this umpteenth devolution. Thanks for this plugin, as useful as the classic editor, but it's sad to have to move forward with band-aids, are they going to continue to make wordpress more and more difficult to use?

It Just Works

December 14, 2021
Thank you for providing this. I have no use for the new layout and prefer the simplicity and speed of the classic version. Hope this does not go away!
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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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