[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36532: Allow Reordering of Available Widgets

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#36532: Allow Reordering of Available Widgets
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 Reporter:  mrwweb       |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Widgets      |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 It's common to see sites with 20 or even 30 widgets, even when the site
 user only needs a few of them:

 - Example 1: Core still ships with Tag Cloud and Meta widgets that I'd
 guess are barely ever used.
 - Example 2: It's always a bummer that the Text widget starts with "T"...
 - Example 3: Jetpack adds a bunch of widgets, but I often only need one.

 Yesterday, I observed a client trying to drag-and-drop reorder the list of
 Available Widgets. I thought that was a perfectly reasonable thing to try,
 and realized I would love to do that on every site. This seems even more
 reasonable considering that a user can already reorder Inactive Widgets.

 I considered requesting that each widget be togglable via Screen Options,
 but I realize this wouldn't quite make sense given that a user could then
 hide an existing widget type. So among the options I can think of, I think
 the ability to reorder Available Widgets would be a relatively minor UI
 change with a potentially large UX improvement!

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36532>
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