Classic Widgets
By Tonya Mork
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.
Other Notable Features
Here are a few other notable features of this free Classic Widgets plugin.
FAQ
No, there are no settings. Once activated, this plugin restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets screen and disables the block editor from managing widgets.
Contributors and developers
“Classic Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
WPS
7.59
Very Good
Ratings
4.9 out of 5 | 262Version
0.3Last updated
3 months agoActive installations
2,000,000+WordPress version
6.9.4 or higherPHP version
5.6 or higherLanguages
46Tags
Classic Widgets,Disable,Disable Gutenberg,Editor,GutenbergOther plugins you might like
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