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

[Bryan Harley]

Looks great!!!  We can finally drag widgets in between sidebars easily and
efficiently again!  Thank you.


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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