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Andrew Ozz

Tonya Mork

Brian Alexander

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 to 2024, or as long as is necessary.
Once activated and when using a classic (non-block) theme, 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.

Classic Widgets

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This has saved a lot of websites from having to be rebuilt, thank you!


Saved websites life

So far so good. But should be continued the development 

Helpful Widget Library


We love this plugin. Please maintain it for years and years beyond 2024!


What will we do without this?


This is one of the first plugins I install on any WordPress website and I am immensely pleased it exists. The block based widget editor is dreadful to use in comparison, I've tried to use it several times over the past couple of years since it was introduced and found it to be unintuitive, prone to errors, and easy to make mistakes with. I've tried so many times, I've completely given up on it and regardless of any updates, bug fixes, etc, I won't be using it until it comes to a point where Classic Widgets is deprecated.


Blocks: I've tried, I really have, but you're not worth the time/headache

Enables the previous "classic" widgets settings screens in Appearance - Widgets and the Customizer. Disables the block editor from managing widgets.

Sumit Singh

Classic Widgets with Block-based Widgets allows you to use both widgets screens at the same time. 
Sometimes, you need to use the classic widget screen for some of the widgets without permanently disabling the block-based widgets. With this plugin, you can access the Classic Widgets screen in <code>Appearance > Classic Widgets</code> and the block-based screen at the usual place in <code>Appearance > Widgets</code>.
NOTE:- 
This plugin uses WordPress filters to create a new classic widget screen. That means it will work as long as WordPress supports the Classic Widgets screen.
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<li><a href="https://github.com/5um17/classic-widgets-with-block-based-widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
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Classic Widgets with Block-based Widgets

Restore the classic widgets screen as a new menu item without replacing new block-based widgets.

Classic Widgets vs Classic Widgets with Block-based Widgets