WordPress 5.8

Hi peterolle,

We haven’t had any reports of problems yet, and I can’t see any problems running 5.8 on a local installation. If you want to play it safe, then please update on a staging version of the site first.

Best regards,
Rikard

Hi nancy2434,

Please try this in your functions.php file to enable the old widget layout:

/**
* With WP 5.8 block editor was introduced to widget page. This is currently not supported by Enfold.
* Based on https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/ we disable this feature.
*
* If you want to use the new widget page and use a child theme add in functions.php of the child theme:
*
*		$avia_config['use_block_widget_page'] = true;
*
* @since 4.8.4.1
*/
if( ! isset( $avia_config['use_block_widget_page'] ) || $avia_config['use_block_widget_page'] !== true )
{
 // Disables the block editor from managing widgets in the Gutenberg plugin.
 add_filter( 'gutenberg_use_widgets_block_editor', '__return_false' );

 // Disables the block editor from managing widgets.
 add_filter( 'use_widgets_block_editor', '__return_false' );
}

Or you can try running this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/

Best regards,
Rikard