What exactly do you mean by “a file”? At most, WordPress itself will show you updates in the admin panel if any are pending. No one is going to give you a single file to update anything.
Not that kind of file. When I logged into my dashboard, WordPress said it was going up update a file, then my dashboard and website went down, and when it came back, classic changed, as did the look of most of my dashboard
WordPress doesn’t display a message indicating that a file is being updated. WordPress updates itself, as well as themes, plugins, and language files, but these always come in packages—not as individual files. So I’m still not sure exactly which message you’re referring to. It might be coming from a plugin you’re using that’s notifying you of a necessary update for itself. Without knowing exactly what happened here, it’s hard for me to assess what’s going on in your project.
Feel free to share a screenshot of what you’re seeing. That might make it easier to understand what you’re referring to. See: https://wordpress.org/support/forum-user-guide/block-editor/#adding-screenshots
it’s not what WordPress did with the update that I’m reaching out to you about, but how classic has changed as a result, and how it doesn’t work as well. Instead of writing in classic much like you do in these paragraph boxes in the form, you had to click edit for a pop out box to type everything since this WordPress forced update, which means you have to save changes before you leave classic. It also doesn’t displaying this accurately anymore. So images you saved as centred, can show as left aligned in the dashboard in classic, but show as being centred on the front end
Your screenshots show that you’re using the Classic Block in the Block Editor. This has absolutely nothing to do with Classic Widgets, as they serve completely different functions – and you’re asking your question in the wrong forum . When the plugin Classsic Widgets is activated and you’re using a classic theme, you manage Classic Widgets under Appearance > Widgets. They are not used in the Block Editor.
The Classic Block interface, which is visible in your screenshots, was updated in one of the recent updates from the Gutenberg team; I believe the popup shown in your screenshot was introduced with WordPress 6.9. This was done in preparation for the change to the Block Editor interface that came in version 7.0. It was necessary to ensure that the Classic Editor could still be used within the Classic Block in this new version.
So you’ve ended up in the wrong support forum with your issue, which is why I was confused by your questions. Now that I understand it better, I’d recommend that you contact the Gutenberg team with your concern: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues
