Widgets Display options

[lumay]

Hello, Thank you for new WP 5.8 version - it's awesome.
I have one problem with new widgets version. Before update there was display option – I could choose where specific widget will be displayed. For example on Page type: Pages, Home Page or Posts. Now I can't find it - Is there any option to switch between widget blocks and old version of widgets?
Or where could I find display option of widgets? Thank you for your help.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, welcome back to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the report.

Just editing the keywords here per ​Trac Workflow Keywords.

[hellofromTonya]

Hello @lumay,

Welcome back to WordPress Core's Trac!

Before update there was display option – I could choose where specific widget will be displayed. For example on Page type: Pages, Home Page or Posts.

Is your site using a plugin to provide this type of selection control? If yes, which plugin is it?

[lumay]

Yes It is Jetpack option and I've got enebled it:
Jetpack > Writing > Widgets >

Enable widget visibility controls to display widgets only on particular posts or pages

[johnstonphilip]

Is there any option to switch between widget blocks and old version of widgets?

For reference, you can use this plugin to go back to the old widgets screen: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/

[hellofromTonya]

In doing a search of Jetpack's GitHub repo, there is a closed ​issue for this report. It does have a merged fix though I'm not sure if the fix has been released yet.

As @johnstonphilip noted, you can use the Classic Widgets plugin to restore the old widgets screen. I just tested with 5.8 and Jetpack to confirm the widgets visibility option is available when using it.

What else can you do?
You can report the issue through ​Jetpack's support portal or in the plugin's support forum found here ​https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack/.

As this is not a WordPress Core issue but rather a plugin issue, closing this ticket.

[lumay]

@hellofromTonya thank you so much for your help!

[hellofromTonya]

Replying to lumay:

@hellofromTonya thank you so much for your help!

You're welcome!

[lumay]

Replying to johnstonphilip:

Is there any option to switch between widget blocks and old version of widgets?

For reference, you can use this plugin to go back to the old widgets screen: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/

Thx @johnstonphilip - it's working with this plugin - thank you so much too!

[lumay]

FYI
Jetpack 9.9.1 update has visibility option in widget blocks:

Widgets: allow the use of widget visibility conditions in gutenberg based widget editing.

[sabernhardt]

#53750 was marked as a duplicate.