[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes

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Thu Jul 28 01:24:31 UTC 2011


#17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes
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 Reporter:  lancewillett  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  3.3
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |
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Comment (by jb510):

 The behavior I'd expect and most like to see is for each old sidebar not
 identically present in the new theme to be displayed as an "archived
 sidebar" with all the widgets still in it, the user could then drag
 ''copies'' of the widgets out (ideally more than one at a time) to a new
 sidebar area.  When done the user could then delete the entire archived
 sidebar area when they done.

 The idea being here that once someone registers a sidebar it should
 persist on theme change.  Widgets and their settings shouldn't be lost and
 should remain grouped together rather than dumped into the garbage heap
 that "inactive widgets" seems to be.

 As an extension of this the ability to manually save sets of widgets as an
 archived sidebar might be interesting to some as well.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17979#comment:17>
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