Classic Widgets
slug: classic-widgets
WordPress plugin by Tonya Mork · detected on 350 sites in our index (6.57% of WordPress sites scanned)
Enables the previous "classic" widgets settings screens in Appearance - Widgets and the Customizer. Disables the block editor from managing widgets.
Where Classic Widgets sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
Classic Widgets is the #39 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 6.57% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running Classic Widgets are hosted on Pantheon (85% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Classic Editor, present on 87% of Classic Widgets sites. The most frequent theme is unified.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with Classic Widgets
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running Classic Widgets in our index.
- Classic Editor87% of Classic Widgets sites · 306 sites
- Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI83% of Classic Widgets sites · 289 sites
- Redirection66% of Classic Widgets sites · 231 sites
- Contact Form 758% of Classic Widgets sites · 204 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection55% of Classic Widgets sites · 191 sites
- WordPress Importer55% of Classic Widgets sites · 191 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post53% of Classic Widgets sites · 187 sites
- WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin53% of Classic Widgets sites · 184 sites
Themes commonly running Classic Widgets
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- unified6% of Classic Widgets sites · 18 sites
- RetroTube4% of Classic Widgets sites · 10 sites
- GeneratePress Child3% of Classic Widgets sites · 8 sites
- divi1% of Classic Widgets sites · 4 sites
- GeneratePress1% of Classic Widgets sites · 4 sites
- KingTube1% of Classic Widgets sites · 3 sites
Hosting providers running Classic Widgets
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
Sites using Classic Widgets
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- ktvz.comStoryMate: NPG · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- macalester.eduMacalester 2020 Child Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- redbutton.dejupiter · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- cruxnow.comtheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- 9minecraft.nettheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- nintendoeverything.comne_new · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- cornucopia.sesoledad · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- dime.jptheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- oe-it.ruNewsMine Theme для КИС "Восточный экспресс" · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- bizbergthemes.comcheckout child theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- thedefensepost.comJannah · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- getnews.jp2019本番用テーマ · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect Classic Widgets
Five-vector detection — /wp-content/plugins/classic-widgets/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it — cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.