Gutenberg: Making the WordPress Widgets available as Blocks
Hello,
For years WP and Widgets exists, lots of plugins create Widgets.
Why are they not transformed as Gutenberg Blocks?
Or
Why not creating a Widget bllock which can embed Widget area?
sebastienserre
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The native WordPress widgets are already blocks in the new Editor.
Third party widgets needs their code rewritten to become blocks. Many third-party widgets already have been converted into blocks. That's the work of the widget producer, not of WordPress core.
In Phase 2, WordPress will introduce the blocks to the widget areas.
Good stuff.
GlennMartin1
on 3 Nov 2018
As mentioned above, this will be explored in phase 2. See #4770 for some discussion around this.
ocean90
on 4 Nov 2018
The native WordPress widgets are already blocks in the new Editor.
Third party widgets needs their code rewritten to become blocks. Many third-party widgets already have been converted into blocks. That's the work of the widget producer, not of WordPress core.
In Phase 2, WordPress will introduce the blocks to the widget areas.
Good stuff.
How can a third party widget plugin become blocks? Can you name some third party widgets which have become blocks?
I am interested in making widgets which can be included into blocks just the like the native ones in Wordpress. Is there any guide to do that?
NickCa12
on 25 Nov 2019
Any idea how to convert my old widgets to gutenberg blocks ?
AshiqKiron
on 11 Mar 2020
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The native WordPress widgets are already blocks in the new Editor.
Third party widgets needs their code rewritten to become blocks. Many third-party widgets already have been converted into blocks. That's the work of the widget producer, not of WordPress core.
In Phase 2, WordPress will introduce the blocks to the widget areas.
Good stuff.