For some reason I am not able to choose the WooCommerce "Product Categories List" widget from the available widgets on my WordPress.

Here's an example of this widget:

Since the version 5.8.0 several widgets passed to be on the new "Legacy Widget" list — https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/29/block-based-widgets-editor-in-wordpress-5-8/

I am using the version 5.8.1 and I am not able to select it from this new "Legacy Widget" list.

I have another installation with the same version 5.8.1 and it shows up there the option "Product Categories List" from the list available on the "Legacy Widget".

Does anyone else had encounter this problem? Thank you

CodePudding user response：

I've found the cause for this problem. Basically, WooCommerce is hiding the "Legacy Widgets" who are replaced by new "equivalent widgets".

Thanks to @7uc1f3r the right solution to this question is to remove this filter on your functions.php file, like this:

remove_filter( 'widget_types_to_hide_from_legacy_widget_block', array( 'BlockTypesController', 'hide_legacy_widgets_with_block_equivalent' ) );