[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40854: Allow media to be embedded in Text widget

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#40854: Allow media to be embedded in Text widget
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 Reporter:  alexvorn2                |       Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  4.9
Component:  Widgets                  |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by westonruter):

 Thank you for working that out.

 Replying to [comment:18 azaozz]:
 > Still to be done: shortcodes are not parsed on the front-end there, so
 audio, video and galleries fail to show up in the Customizer preview.

 Actually, it's not just in the Customizer preview. It's on the frontend
 generally, as rendering shortcodes isn't currently supported in the Text
 widget in core, and plugins currently are needed to add support for them.
 It did not occur to me that shortcodes would be required when adding
 media, but it slipped my mind.

 > Also still somewhat unclear about having several widgets with
 overlapping features.

 It does seem somewhat of a shame to go to the trouble of implementing a
 Gallery widget when a user could also just add a gallery into a Text
 widget. Maybe it's about being able to provide guided user experiences to
 accomplish certain tasks.

 There is overlap to be sure, but I think there may be enough use cases for
 separate widgets. It seems clear that users need to be able to add images
 along their text, in particular floating images around text in the
 sidebar. But maybe core shouldn't support this, and core should instead
 just require two Text widgets with an image widget in between if that is
 the desired effect (though it wouldn't be semantically right).

 @melchoyce Thoughts?

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