Classic Widgets
Active Installs
2,000,000+
Last Updated
December 8, 2025
First Released
May 5, 2021
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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.
No installation instructions provided.
No, there are no settings. Once activated, this plugin restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress widgets screen and disables the block editor from managing widgets.
No, as block themes rely on blocks. See Block themes article for more information.
Changelog
0.3
Update for 5.9.
0.2
Update filter name.
0.1
Initial release.
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