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Plugin info

Total downloads: 6,988,030
Active installs: 2,000,000
Total reviews: 260
Average rating: 4.9
Support threads opened: 2
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 48 language(s)
Contributors: 8
Last updated: 11/12/2024 (460 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 5/5/2021 (4 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.7.4
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 460 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 260 reviews

27/100

Is Classic Widgets abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 460 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.7.4
Requires PHP: 5.6

Ratings

249
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3
0
5See all reviews

Developers

Brian Alexander (Owner)1Tonya Mork (Owner)4WordPress.org (Owner)6Andrew Ozz (Owner)9WordPress.org71Andrew Ozz11Tonya Mork2Brian Alexander2

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Dutch30,206Russian27,196French (France)20,849German19,853Spanish (Venezuela)17,048Italian15,565Swedish14,890Japanese14,019Spanish (Colombia)13,464Spanish (Mexico)13,287Portuguese (Brazil)13,276Spanish (Ecuador)11,738Dutch (Formal)11,736Czech10,389Dutch (Belgium)10,363English (UK)9,973German (Formal)9,953Chinese (China)9,700Polish9,087English (Canada)8,372Persian8,053Spanish (Chile)8,024Ukrainian7,073Turkish6,934Chinese (Taiwan)6,927Danish6,292Norwegian (Bokmål)6,152Greek5,862Korean5,844Portuguese (Portugal)5,491Romanian5,144Arabic4,417Catalan4,308Croatian4,253Hungarian4,022Galician4,008Spanish (Argentina)2,798Hebrew2,714Lithuanian1,486Bosnian786Basque566Gujarati300Emoji163Marathi156Catalan (Valencian)96Asturian73

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Description

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.

Installation

No installation instructions available

Frequently Asked Questions

Are there any settings?

No, there are no settings. Once activated, this plugin restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets screen and disables the block editor from managing widgets.

Does this work with full site editing and block themes?

No, as block themes rely on blocks. See Block themes article for more information.

Review feed

Riccardo Di Curti
12/16/2022

Top 💪🏻

Top
Pagecode
3/16/2023

Saved websites life

This has saved a lot of websites from having to be rebuilt, thank you!
Masum Billah
5/5/2023

Helpful Widget Library

So far so good. But should be continued the development
Scott Hendison
5/9/2024

What will we do without this?

We love this plugin. Please maintain it for years and years beyond 2024!
David Allsop
8/9/2024

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

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.

Screenshots

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Changelog

0.3

Update for 5.9.

0.2

Update filter name.

0.1

Initial release.

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