[wp-forums] Topic closed for no apparent reason?

[Mar Ventus]

Gotcha, Ipstenu. My concern was that, since the title didn't specify what
time of widgets the OP wanted to wrap inside a div, I thought we should
also provide other alternatives for users like cmoral3s who needed the
functionality for non-text widgets as well.
Other than that, I totally agree with the guidelines you mentioned, and as
to our friend Joe Buckle, a JS approach could actually work for cmoral3s.
As usual, many thanks for the clarification, ;-)

Marv


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:

> cmoral3s posted after the post had been six months idle.
>
> Two major factors at work here:
>
> 1) We've had a major WP upgrade since then
> 2) The post should have been made resolved a while ago
>
> He should have made his own topic, or been encouraged/asked to do so,
> because as you rightly pointed "Not sure if yours is the same." It's not.
> And as soon as we keep letting more and more people pile on one topic...
>
> Well I tell people it's like everyone shouting out their orders at once to
> the barristas. You get bad coffee :) You'll get bad help if you do that,
> since the helpers have to sort multiple threads, which are all in a single
> line, to help one person. Most of the time this results in the OP never
> being helped. That's why the guidelines say to make their own topics. It's
> way easier to help each individual there, since rarely is the problem 100%
> the same.
>
> There are exceptions of course, but it'll be like "Hey, I get this error
> on this theme." or something very specific. Like Pagespeed and the media
> uploader. You can tell they're the same because you don't get "I have the
> same problem, but only when I use this plugin..." :) That 'but' is the
> indicator that says it's probably not the same problem.
>
> We want to encourage forum users to open multiple threads about similar,
> but NOT the exact same problems. And Joe Buckle jumping in there is exactly
> why.
>
> Mar Ventus wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello, all!
>> The following topic in which I was helping out:
>> http://wordpress.org/support/**topic/add-html-wrapper-around-**
>> widget-content<http://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-html-wrapper-around-widget-content>
>> seems to have been closed for no apparent reason. The second poster,
>> cmoral3s<http://wordpress.org/**support/profile/cmoral3s<http://wordpress.org/support/profile/cmoral3s>>,
>> is experiencing
>>
>> the exact same problem as the OP, except that the proposed solution does
>> not work for him because it only targets text widgets.
>> I really think it should be reopened, unless we want to encourage forum
>> users to open multiple threads about the exact same problems.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Marventus
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