Wordpress 5.8 Update - New widgets area
Hello to you all. There has been a Wordpress update called wordpress 5.8 and there is some confusion about the new widgets area. I will explain what it is and how to go back to the origianl widgets area if you want to
Below is an image of the old widgets area in the wordpress dashboard
From this to this
The new widgets area
If you want to revert to the old widgets are install this plugin
This plugin will revert your wordpress instialtion to the old widgets area
I know everyhting new is a bit scary especailly for newcomes and the training will of course show the old widgets area.
If you take a bit of time to get to know the new widgets you will find that there is a lot more functionality for you to utilise. The main reason for the upgrade is to bring widgets up to date witht he new wordpress editor.
The big change is that you can drag and drop items into your widgets and there is a lot more choice and tons of new features for you to play with to enhance your website side bar
The New Widgets Features
When you click on the plus icon you get all the new functions displayed
As you can see there are tons of new featurs that you can now add to your widgets and side bar area. you can now even embed video into your side bar
I encourage you to have a play around with this to see all the new features, the widgets still work the same way you just drag and drop things into each widget on your side bar. There are now just more features and its more intuituve as its all drag and drop
Wordpress is trying to move from a basic bloging platform to WYSIWYG Platform
What you see is what you get
Its trying to become a page builder as well as a bloging platform as this is now what most website builders offer
I hope this helps clear up the new widgets update in wordpress
Barry
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Thanks for the helpful hints.
Jerry