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

[Bryan Harley]

One thing I would recommend is that the "Widgets" page finally become a
top-level navigation item, like it should be.  Widgets are definitely on the
same level as Posts, Pages, Comments, etc.  Widgets contain vital pieces of
blog/web site data.


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Bryan Harley <bryanharley at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looks great!!!  We can finally drag widgets in between sidebars easily and
> efficiently again!  Thank you.
>
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Paleo Pat <tpblogeditor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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