Enables the WordPress Legacy Widget block for block-based themes.
As of April 2026, X3P0 Legacy Widget is a WordPress block plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
X3P0 Legacy Widget enables the core WordPress Legacy Widget block for the WordPress block editor. It is meant to be used alongside a block-based theme, such as Twenty Twenty-Two, so that users can embed classic widgets into their sites via the site editor (Appearance > Editor).
This plugin is mostly useful when working with third-party plugins that register custom widgets that have yet to be ported to the block system. This is meant to be a temporary fix, at least until developers update their plugins to support the block system. Please talk to your plugin developers and find out whether they have plans to do so in the long term. If not, you should look for alternative plugins that create block versions of the features you need. This plugin is meant as a transitioning tool, not so…
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Please see the changelog.md file included with the plugin file. Or, you can view the online change log.
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