Visibility Controls lost in new WP widgets control area

[Jon-Stout]

Impacted plugin

Jetpack

Quick summary

Wordpress seems to have redesigned its Widgets page and now "Visibility" is not available on the edit widget page. You can still access it on the "Live Preview" page, but I have some widgets that are not accessible via that interface and so I cannot access the visibility control for that widget. Can you update the plug-in to restore visibility controls?

Steps to reproduce

Go to Appearance > Widgets
Edit or Add any Widget
Note that the "Visibility" button does not appear.

Site owner impact

More than 60% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Major

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No response

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

"Live Preview" only works for widgets that can be control from that page

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Self-hosted

[kraftbj]

Hi @Jon-Stout - I wanted to check on a couple of things.

1. Are you using the Classic Widgets plugin or anything like that or the block-based widgets screen (e.g. both would be at wp-admin/widgets.php ) The block-based screen would look roughly like this:

2. Are you trying to modify a legacy widget? I'm seeing the visibility button when I select one of the legacy widgets:

If I install the Classic Widget plugin to restore the previous interface, I'm seeing the Visibility button there too:

Additionally, may need to confirm in the Jetpack settings that the widget visibility feature is enabled (e.g. wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack#/settings?term=visibility )

I'm curious about what I'm missing to reproduce what you're seeing or if there is something else conflicting on your site.