Koji Kuno

<p>A plugin that lets administrators easily toggle the block template lock (contentOnly) from the WordPress block editor toolbar. Take flexible control over your editing experience. (Available to administrators only. The menu is not displayed for users with editor or lower capabilities.)</p>
<h3>How to use hook</h3>
<p><strong>locky_blocky_required_capability</strong> hook allows you to change the permissions to display the lock menu provided by this plugin.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'locky_blocky_required_capability', function( $default ) {
    return 'edit_others_posts'; // Editor privileges and above
});
</code></pre>
<p>It can also be made available only to specific user IDs.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'locky_blocky_required_capability', function( $default ) {
    if ( get_current_user_id() === 123 ) {
        return 'read'; // Available for User ID 123 only
    }
    return 'do_not_allow'; // Otherwise, not allowed.
});
</code></pre>
<h3>Important Notice</h3>
<p>This plugin provides a feature to toggle the <code>templateLock</code> (<code>contentOnly</code>) directly from the block toolbar. If WordPress Core implements a similar feature in the future, this plugin will be deprecated and no longer maintained.</p>
<p>Thank you for your understanding.</p>
<h3>Github Repository</h3>
<p>https://github.com/Olein-jp/locky-blocky</p>


Locky Blocky


Good news: This is a God send plugin - easy, nice, ingenious, amazing, I feel embarrassed I did not think of this first.



The bad news: This feature will/should be included in the core thus making this plugin redundant.  


Good news and bad news.

Easily toggle the block template lock (contentOnly) in the WordPress block editor toolbar.

WordPress.org

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.

Locky Blocky vs Classic Widgets