Title: Disable Widget Block Editor Author: Express Themes Published: September 25, 2020 Last modified: September 25, 2020 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/disable-widget-block-editor.svg) # Disable Widget Block Editor By [Express Themes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ciobanu0151/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-widget-block-editor/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-widget-block-editor/#reviews) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-widget-block-editor/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/) ## Description Disables the new widget block editor page of gutenberg and brings back the old widgets page. You just need to enable the plugin and the old widgets page will be back. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a151d307ee54648f9c6d0a70c00eeee72c5ce632846d78502b796cd68fe2edb4? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Essential plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-plugin-211/)󠁿 [Anonymous User 11986954](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anonymized-11986954/) May 4, 2022 How the new block widget mess can be so slow and buggy and still shipped in production, is embarassing. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/37d99b9612b1cc2e593f913128e972b06e05e0d2256ead32c46987fc4305a83a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[not good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-good-175/)󠁿 [samy9980](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samy9980/) August 26, 2021 I don’t like the way it shows the older widget, not full featured, there are better ones out their ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/299ee0e6dfb26caf004b09dd81379add6a29bec398cdbaacea85a7aa355a7036? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[didn’t work for me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/didnt-work-for-me-173/)󠁿 [earth_human](https://profiles.wordpress.org/earth_human/) August 16, 2021 This didn’t work for me but the plugin named “Restore Classic Widgets” did work. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f26a79a0d33f90d3837d8c8c7f7d225ead53b2b02dd5e6ffa1b35e2bf182f0e3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Very handy!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-handy-234/)󠁿 [strarsis](https://profiles.wordpress.org/strarsis/) December 12, 2020 This plugin is very handy. Because of a bug, I had the need to disable the Widget Block Editor while still using the Gutenberg plugin. [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Disable Widget Block Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Express Themes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ciobanu0151/) [Translate “Disable Widget Block Editor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-widget-block-editor) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-widget-block-editor/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disable-widget-block-editor/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-widget-block-editor/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-widget-block-editor/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **6 years ago** * Active installations **400+** * WordPress version ** 4.9 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.5.18** * Tag * [gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gutenberg/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-widget-block-editor/advanced/) ## Ratings 4 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 1 1-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Express Themes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ciobanu0151/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-widget-block-editor/)