[wp-testers] Widgets in 2.8 Bleeding...

[Paleo Pat]

All works here... so far, there's an error, believe me, you'll know about
it. ;-P

(warning the following might have wordy derd or two, or as it is commonly
known as, a swear word or two in it...)

In an sorta related, and sorta not item. I have hosting with site5.com.
They're doing server upgrades, and anyways, I did the update to the latest
build and I notice the new widget layout. Anyways, I wanted to add a little
square banner to my Blog, and so, I went and snagged the code, and was going
to add it to a preexisting widget. So, I pasted said code and hit save and I
see the swirl, going around and around and around... and I'm thinking
"Uh-oh...." and I hit refresh, and sure enough, dead flippin' server, no
response, I let out a very long drawn out "ooooohhh Fuuuuuuck....." and went
over to tech support and started the process of finding out what exactly
happened, and what I broke.

Well, believe it or not, It wasn't me. They were doing server upgrades an
guess who's got done first... Mine. When the support tech guy told me that,
I nearly died laughing, I would have loved to been the fly on the wall
during that tech support meeting! "Yeah, let's do the server that the
asshole political blogger is on FIRST, he's very picky and the minute the
server goes down, he is on us like a mad man!" LOL! Anyhow, the server was
back up in like 5 minutes. I was able to add my code without any trouble at
all.

It might not be as funny to you guys, but for me, it was the best laugh I'd
had in a while. You know you're important when they upgrade your server
first! LOL!

-Paleo Pat
http://www.politicalbyline.com




On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Andrew Ozz <admin at laptoptips.ca> wrote:

> Does everything on the widgets page work as expected? Anything that feels
> awkward/hard to use? Any widgets that fail to save or bring js errors?
>
> It's all AJAX-ified and all sidebars (including the Available Widgets area)
> can be folded to make it easier to use on smaller screens. The Inactive
> Widgets area is for storing widgets that are configured but not in any
> sidebar at the moment. Also when changing themes if the new theme has less
> sidebars than the old one, all widgets from the extra sidebar(s) are moved
> to Inactive.
>
> Dan Milward wrote:
>
>> I agree it looks very nice.
>>
>
> The look isn't fully completed yet. Hopefully it will look even nicer :)
>
>  Does anybody know if a more advanced widget management is coming for
>> 2.8 launch? We'd like to contribute code to that - we reckon it is
>> important to specify which pages/posts widgets display on... kinda
>> like slayers but with better UI :P
>>
>
> Don't think there will be any significant feature changes any more. We are
> getting close to first beta for 2.8, not enough time left. Also the code/API
> has to stay backwards compatible.
>
> Will probably revisit widgets for 2.9 when (hopefully) all widgets will be
> using the new multi-widget class so we can streamline the API functions and
> add features without breaking compatibility.
>
> On the other hand if you need more hooks, choose a good place that won't
> limit future changes and open a ticket. In the worst case it will be left
> for 2.9.
>
>
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