Another method to disable the WordPress block widgets is by using the use_widget_block_editor filter hook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just add the following one-line code on the function.php file of your current theme and save it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
add_filter( 'use_widgets_block_editor', '__return_false' );<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\nNow go to Appearance > Widgets<\/strong> to check whether the traditional widget area is restored or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Using the remove_theme_support<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe final step to disable the widget block editor is using the remove_theme_support snippet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can add the following code snippet on the function.php file of your active WordPress theme and save it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
function disable_hash_themes_support() {\n remove_theme_support( 'widgets-block-editor' );\n}\nadd_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'disable_hash_themes_support' );<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\nNow go to Appearance > Widgets<\/strong> to check whether the traditional widget area is restored or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to disable WordPress block widgets and enable classic widgets again? After the release of WordPress 5.8, WordPress has replaced the traditional widget area with a new block-based system. Here, you use the Gutenberg blocks to place the widgets in sidebars, footers, or other widgets areas. This is basically an upgrade for the old widget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":43915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginners-guide","category-tips-and-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hashthemes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}