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How to Disable Gutenberg Widget Block Editor
To easily disable Gutenberg Widget Block Editor go to wordpress plugin repository and search for classic widgets and install it. Alternatively you can visit this link https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-widget-block-editor/. Once you install Classic Widget activate it and you have now rolled back to the familiar widget that we know. If you want to Disable Gutenberg Widget Block Editor manually without the use of worpress plugin follow below procedure.
How to Disable Gutenberg Widget Block Editor
Do you want to disable the new widget block editor page of Gutenberg and brings back the old widgets page? You can do that simply adding this line into your theme’s functions.php file:
// Disables the block editor from managing widgets in the Gutenberg plugin.
add_filter( 'gutenberg_use_widgets_block_editor', '__return_false', 100 );
// Disables the block editor from managing widgets. renamed from wp_use_widgets_block_editor
add_filter( 'use_widgets_block_editor', '__return_false' );
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Thats all you need and your old widget will resurface. Thanks to the team that provided this code.