Comments on: First Look At New Widget Interface http://www.wptavern.com/first-look-at-new-widget-interface Where Every Drink Is On The House Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeffro http://www.wptavern.com/first-look-at-new-widget-interface#comment-910 Jeffro Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:39:56 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=907#comment-910 @<a href="#comment-909" rel="reply" rel="nofollow">Jane Wells</a> - That actually makes a lot of sense and I'm thankful that I now have a place to put my configured Text widgets where they won't lose their settings versus the way they work now. Thanks for the clarification Jane. @Jane Wells – That actually makes a lot of sense and I’m thankful that I now have a place to put my configured Text widgets where they won’t lose their settings versus the way they work now. Thanks for the clarification Jane.

]]> By: Jane Wells http://www.wptavern.com/first-look-at-new-widget-interface#comment-909 Jane Wells Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:50:21 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=907#comment-909 The Inactive Widgets area is so that if you remove a widget from a sidebar but don't add it to a different one, you can save it with the settings in the Inactive area. Since the widgets are all multi-use, it wouldn't have worked to just drop the settings back into the main list instance, b/c if you had, for example, 3 text widgets that you were temporarily pulling out of sidebars and you wanted to save the settings for all of them, it would be confusing. So the main list at top left is default widget settings, and Inactive is to save widgets you're giving a time-out. And no, we haven't done any of the styling yet. It will come. :) The Inactive Widgets area is so that if you remove a widget from a sidebar but don’t add it to a different one, you can save it with the settings in the Inactive area. Since the widgets are all multi-use, it wouldn’t have worked to just drop the settings back into the main list instance, b/c if you had, for example, 3 text widgets that you were temporarily pulling out of sidebars and you wanted to save the settings for all of them, it would be confusing. So the main list at top left is default widget settings, and Inactive is to save widgets you’re giving a time-out.

And no, we haven’t done any of the styling yet. It will come. :)

]]> By: Jeffro http://www.wptavern.com/first-look-at-new-widget-interface#comment-857 Jeffro Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:13:50 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=907#comment-857 @<a href="#comment-852" rel="reply" rel="nofollow">Kel</a> - Yep, the saving part is definitely something i noticed as well. And, each sidebar that you have in your theme shows up on the right hand side allowing you to see which widgets are applied to which sidebar. So in a way, it's sort of what you were asking for. @Kel – Yep, the saving part is definitely something i noticed as well. And, each sidebar that you have in your theme shows up on the right hand side allowing you to see which widgets are applied to which sidebar. So in a way, it’s sort of what you were asking for.

]]> By: Kel http://www.wptavern.com/first-look-at-new-widget-interface#comment-852 Kel Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:46:34 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=907#comment-852 Follow-up... Actually I just pulled the 2.8 update in and I see the Widgets function somewhat similarly to what I've described. The style/graphics that allow the widgetable areas to "roll up" appears incomplete for the moment, but it's certainly getting there. And... it appears as though all this Ajaxy goodness has made it possible that we no longer need to Save each time we add/edit a widget - Yay! Follow-up… Actually I just pulled the 2.8 update in and I see the Widgets function somewhat similarly to what I’ve described. The style/graphics that allow the widgetable areas to “roll up” appears incomplete for the moment, but it’s certainly getting there. And… it appears as though all this Ajaxy goodness has made it possible that we no longer need to Save each time we add/edit a widget – Yay!

]]> By: Kel http://www.wptavern.com/first-look-at-new-widget-interface#comment-851 Kel Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:57:35 +0000 http://www.wptavern.com/?p=907#comment-851 I mentioned this on WPEngineer, I'd love to see a way to list all widgetable areas that already have widgets installed. WP "knows" which ones are active/inactive, so there must be a simple way to make the UI show there are "X" number of active widgets in ""X" sidebar area/s. If my theme had 3 widgetable areas (Sidebar, Bottom and Top) and I added 2 widgets to the Sidebar, 3 to the Bottom and 0 to the Top, I'd expect to see something like: * Sidebar (edit) - 2 * Bottom (edit) - 3 and we don't show the Top at all since it's empty. Or maybe ... * Sidebar (edit) - 2 * Bottom (edit) - 3 * Top (add) I mentioned this on WPEngineer, I’d love to see a way to list all widgetable areas that already have widgets installed. WP “knows” which ones are active/inactive, so there must be a simple way to make the UI show there are “X” number of active widgets in “”X” sidebar area/s.

If my theme had 3 widgetable areas (Sidebar, Bottom and Top) and I added 2 widgets to the Sidebar, 3 to the Bottom and 0 to the Top, I’d expect to see something like:

* Sidebar (edit) – 2
* Bottom (edit) – 3

and we don’t show the Top at all since it’s empty.
Or maybe …

* Sidebar (edit) – 2
* Bottom (edit) – 3
* Top (add)

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