Title: Widget screen question
Last modified: May 5, 2026

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# Widget screen question

 *  [caitlin33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caitlin33/)
 * (@caitlin33)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-screen-question-2/)
 * I still prefer the old widget screen for simple sidebar edits. Is Classic Widgets
   meant to keep working long term, or should I slowly start moving my widgets to
   the block editor?

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-screen-question-2/#post-18899246)
 * Here’s my take on it: classic themes that use classic widgets will be around 
   for a very long time. After all, a huge number of websites rely on these themes.
   Removing this feature from WordPress simply isn’t practical, given the sheer 
   number of projects that depend on it. In my opinion, you can definitely continue
   to use this plugin – which enables the classic widget functionality built into
   WordPress – for quite some time to come.

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