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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.

Joker Studio

This plugin allows you to: 
– ✅ Restore the classic editor and classic widgets (Disables Gutenberg). 
– 🚫 Block advertising banners and admin notices injected by plugins. 
– 🧹 Clean and optimize your WordPress dashboard for speed. 
– 🔒 Hide WordPress version and branding for extra privacy. 
– 🌐 Fully multilingual (18 languages included, RTL compatible). 
– ⚙️ Simple and intuitive settings page to control everything. 
– ✅ Compatible with WooCommerce, Elementor, PHP 8+
[FR] Ce plugin permet : 
– ✅ De restaurer l’éditeur classique et les widgets classiques (désactive Gutenberg). 
– 🚫 De bloquer les bandeaux publicitaires et notifications des extensions. 
– 🧹 D’optimiser le tableau de bord WordPress pour plus de rapidité. 
– 🔒 De masquer la version et le logo WordPress. 
– 🌐 Multilingue (18 langues incluses, compatible RTL). 
– ⚙️ Une page de configuration simple et intuitive. 
– ✅ Compatible WooCommerce, Elementor, PHP 8+

Restore Classic Editor & Widgets – Clean & Lightweight Dashboard

This plugin is excellent !

Restore classic editor & widgets, block admin ads, and speed up WordPress with one clean, lightweight, multilingual plugin.

Classic Widgets vs Restore Classic Editor & Widgets – Clean & Lightweight Dashboard