Classic Widgets
slug: classic-widgets
WordPress plugin by Tonya Mork · detected on 355 sites in our index (6.54% 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 #40 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 6.54% 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 88% 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 Editor88% of Classic Widgets sites · 311 sites
- Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI82% of Classic Widgets sites · 292 sites
- Redirection65% of Classic Widgets sites · 231 sites
- Contact Form 758% of Classic Widgets sites · 205 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection54% of Classic Widgets sites · 193 sites
- WordPress Importer54% 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 Plugin52% 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.
- 8am.mediaJNews · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-29
- psychedelicsalesaustralia.comSublime · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-22
- sorakaro.comNomina · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-05
- detikpublik.comnomina · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-02
- paulhelfrich.comGlowing Amber Pro · host unknown · scanned 2026-06-26
- 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
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.