The WordPress 4.8 text widget debacle – 4.8.1 Beta is ready

https://wordpress.org/support/t&8230; – HackRepair.com | We Fix Hacked Websites – Google+ || Back in mid-June, I joined a number of discussions regarding the WordPress 4.8 text widget debacle. One such discussion:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-visual-editor-in-the-text-widget/page/2/#post-9221926
Since then, it does appear the WordPress 4.8.1 release, coming out sometime in the first week of August, will include a "Legacy mode" which retains our original code, without blowing up our widgets visual editor wise.
Don’t get me going – again…
That said, the new 4.8.1 (in beta now btw, in case you’d like to try it: [https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/#beta-and-rc]) includes a new "Custom HTML" widget—much akin to the much venerated ‘Classic Text Widget’ [https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-text-widget/] many of us have had to resort to since the WordPress 4.8 release.
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Written by Jim Walker, The Hack Repair Guy @ https://HackRepair.com
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Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15698/the-wordpress-4-8-text-widget-debacle-4-8-1-beta-is-ready

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