Where are widgets, menus?

Hi @jkaiser77 – like Twenty Twenty Three, the new theme is a Block Theme – which means that Widgets and Menus are no longer used (Blocks are used instead). You can find out a little more general information about Block themes here.

Block themes

In terms of adding those items to your site – you can approach things a little differently.

• Menus are handled directly within the templates using the ‘Navigation Block‘.
• Widgets are replaced by the ability to add Blocks wherever you want. So where you had Widget areas in the footer – you can now simply edit the footer directly and add blocks, using columns for layout, and whatever content you want) to have those reflected in the footer throughout the site.

I’d recommend taking a look at those docs for a bit more information on how that all works. But if there’s anything else I can clarify, please let me know.

I too was looking for the widgets in the TT4 theme and was frustrated to find they were missing while there’s no clear guidance on a replacement. As jordesign suggested, you can manually add blocks anywhere you want, but this does not replace widgets where you can update the content in one place and it will update all instances. This is the real benefit of widgets.

You can add blocks to the footer or header, but if you don’t want the same blocks on each page this will not work. Also, as far as I can tell, there’s no native way to add conditional logic to a block to determine when and where it might be shown.

Another option is to use template parts which are in some themes like TT4. This has no conditional logic but provides a reusable part to add to pages.

If you need conditional widgets/blocks like I do, for varied content in a section on multiple pages/sections that can be updated in one place, I think there may be some option with JetPack or a plugin like conditional blocks.