I experience from time to time glitches with the widgets block system and never got to like it.

Lately, it got worse to the point that I could not add/edit my widgets, getting all kinds of errors and strange behavior. I must say I was panicked because it was a huge issue for me.

After some research I found out the plugin that rolls us back to sanity.

The fact that it has 2M installations and a 5-star rating clearly means that WP made a lousy move with introducing the blocks into the widgets.

I hope they will take this seriously.

thanks for providing such a tool

Great plugin!

Very easy to understand, set up, and use.

Keep on keepin' on ...

Great solution, thanks

A good plugin.

Makes my life easy.

Installed on every site, with the blocks approach to widgets being a mess, to say it politely…

It use to work great and was a much added addition to my installs of plugins, but since Wordpress keeps updating their core, it's now broken. All my social links (Jetpack) icons no longer show up. I can hover over them and see the links, but the icons are no longer showing up anymore.

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.

Classic Widgets gives me a lot more control over the look of the widgets. I design/develop the widgets to look as they need too. Clients don't need confusing options. I like the simplicity of this UI, and it's flexibility.

I wish this was installed by default. It is part of what made WordPress a so popular.