[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes

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#17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes
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 Reporter:  lancewillett  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  3.3-early     |
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Comment (by aaroncampbell):

 Replying to [comment:7 scribu]:
 > I don't think automatically moving widgets to other sidebars is useful.
 For example, widgets in a footer sidebar might appear on the right etc.
 >
 > My proposal is to let the user map old sidebars to new. Multiple old
 sidebars could be mapped to the same new sidebar.
 >
 > In terms of UI, one idea would be to have a dropdown of new sidebars for
 each old sidebar, displayed right after switching to a new theme.

 While I think your solution is more complete, I think there's something to
 be said about doing as much automatically (no user input required) as
 possible.  The user can rearrange the widgets, but at least content won't
 disappear from the site.

 I'm thinking we could shoot for the solution Lance proposed for 3.3 and
 create a plugin that could be used to perfect the UI for the latter
 solution.  I'm really worried that a mediocre UI for this will actually be
 WORSE than what we currently have.

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