[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39693: Fix missing assignment of widgets on theme switch

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#39693: Fix missing assignment of widgets on theme switch
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 Reporter:  melchoyce    |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Widgets      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by westonruter):

 Replying to [comment:33 alexvorn2]:
 > If you look in the recent default theme: "Twenty Seventeen" you can find
 out that this theme have theme-specific sets of widgets settings, so this
 is not something new, you can check by yourself when you make a theme
 preview of this theme... a you find that some widgets are loaded with text
 in the specific sidebars.

 These starter content widgets are only applied to Twenty Seventeen in the
 case of a site being fresh, without any content on it. These are not
 intended to be used when a site already has content. They should not
 overwrite existing widgets that someone may already have in another theme
 when switching to Twenty Seventeen. Any re-use of the starter content
 widgets would have to be opt-in, per #38624.

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