Riad Benguella

<p>Gutenberg Custom Fields allows you to control the content of the Gutenberg edit screen by creating pre-filled templates.</p>
<p>Navigate to the “GCF” admin page, create a new template, select a post type and add fields as you wish.</p>
<p>The Gutenberg Editor will be pre-filled with the corresponding post type’s template.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customize the title, the name of the post_meta key and the type of the field.</li>
<li>Several fields types available: Text, Textarea, Image, Number, Email and more to come.</li>
<li>Based on Gutenberg Native Extensibility APIs (blocks and templates).</li>
<li>Templates Lock level.</li>
<li>Create custom field types</li>
<li>Add a Free HTML Area</li>
</ul>
<h4>How can I contribute?</h4>
<p>This plugin is being worked on in <a href="https://github.com/youknowriad/gcf" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Documentation can be found <a href="https://youknowriad.github.io/gcf/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. If you don’t find the answers you’re looking for, <a href="https://github.com/youknowriad/gcf/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">submit an issue</a>.</p>


Gutenberg Custom Fields

Gutenberg is great, but I need a way to associate arbitrary key-value pairs with posts. The post-meta-as-block paradigm doesn't make sense for many use cases, and having to pre-commit to a set of meta values with a template is a bit stifling.

This plugin is a more useful alternative: https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-fields-gutenberg/

Not a viable replacement for custom fields

Gutenberg Custom Fields allows you to control the content of the Gutenberg edit screen by creating pre-filled templates.

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Andrew Ozz

Tonya Mork

Brian Alexander

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>


Classic Widgets

Top 💪🏻


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.

Gutenberg Custom Fields vs Classic Widgets