[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27404: Widget Customizer: Allow adding inactive widgets to widget areas

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#27404: Widget Customizer: Allow adding inactive widgets to widget areas
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 Reporter:  westonruter      |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  4.5
Component:  Widgets          |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |     Focuses:  ui, javascript
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Comment (by todd-inmotion):

 Replying to [comment:10 westonruter]:

 > No work has commenced, no. You are free to pick it up!
 Great!

 >
 > Instead of a separate panel/section, I was thinking it might make more
 sense for the inactive widgets to be made available via the panel that
 slides out for the user to pick from among the available widgets to add.


 That is preferable UI wise I think too.  Then a user just has to go to Add
 a Widget from the Widget Area regardless of adding a "New Widget" or
 adding an "Inactive Widget" to the widget area.

 UI wise, we chatted here and we are thinking about listing the Inactive
 Widget directly underneath its base "New Widget" but indented.  If the
 user has filled in the Title of the Inactive Widget, we will replace the
 normal description with the title they have used.  If they do not have a
 title (very common), we will have a default of some sort.

 Two issues we will think more on:

 *How to truly delete the Inactive Widget - our other method allows access
 to the Widget Config to delete it.  We would need to add Delete of some
 sort to the Inactive Widget in the Add Widget list.
 *If user has many Inactive Widgets the list will get long - do we try to
 create some accordion drop down under the New Widget? This could be a non-
 intuitive change since the current click action is to add the widget to
 the zone.  My thought is we do not take this on - essentially, if we have
 an easily delete method that will let people clean it up their individual
 list gets to long for them.

 Thoughts?

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