[wp-testers] Area for disabled widgets in 2.6?

[Kirk M]

Hi Stefano,

I'm running r8163 in a local "Sandbox" right now and for some reason I 
don't see this feature. If you're referring to the drop down list at the 
top that includes "Show any widgets", "Show unused widgets" or "Show 
used widgets" it only works for widgets that are either unused (those 
listed in the left sidebar of the widgets page) or used in the sidebar. 
Once I remove a text widget from the sidebar, it's no longer listed 
under any of the options in the drop down list.

In other words, if I have a text widget setup with "Today's Wise Saying" 
and I want to temporarily remove it from the sidebar while I rearrange 
things ( or whatever), I would like to be able to put it back into the 
sidebar without having to rewrite the whole thing all over again. In 2.6 
bleeding, once I remove a text widget from the sidebar it's simply gone 
with no way to retrieve it.

Perhaps I'm missing something here? :D

Stefano Aglietti wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:36:42 -0400, Kirk M<kmb42vt at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I don't know if this has been discussed here before (probably has, I may
>> have missed it) but before the Admin UI makeover, we had a handy place
>> to put both unused and previously used (disabled) widgets which made it
>> very convenient if we chose to reuse a previously setup widget again,
>> especially text/html widgets. This is something we don't have with the
>> current 2.5.x. Are there any plans that a "Disabled Widgets" section
>> might be added into the 2.6 Admin's "Widgets" page similar to the one
>> found in K2's version of the old SBM plugin for example? It's sorely needed.
>>      
>
> It' already in trunk since few weeks.
>
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