[wp-hackers] updating widgets for multiple sidebars

[Otto]

Additional: What do you mean by "multiple-sidebar-enabled", exactly?
You can have as many sidebars as you want, and widgets can go on any
of them.

Do you mean multi-instance widgets? Like the Text widget? Because all
widgets, even single-instance ones, can go on any sidebar.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> Well, it's really up to the widget itself, isn't it? It doesn't make
> sense for all widgets to be available in more than one place at the
> same time.
>
> A multi-widget is multi, a single widget is single.
>
> Again, I feel like I'm confused. There's nothing to contribute here,
> the text widget is multi, the rest of the defaults are not, and that's
> pretty much that. Why would you wan tthe meta widget to be multi, for
> example? It makes no sense.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Shane Pearlman <shane at shaneandpeter.com> wrote:
>> I'm sorry if what I wrote was confusing. I am referring to the widgets that
>> have NOT been enabled to work in multiple sidebars as of this point.
>>
>> For example, in the default widgets provided with the current tagged 2.6
>> release, links, meta, recent comments ... are single sidebar widgets and are
>> not multiple sidebar enabled.
>>
>> I was asking:
>>
>> 1) has anyone done this yet?
>> 2) if we do it, should we contribute that for 2.7?
>>
>> -S
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:49 PM, wp-hackers-request at lists.automattic.com wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:04:49 -0300
>>> From: Charles Frees-Melvin <charles.freesmelvin at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] updating widgets for multiple sidebars
>>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
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>>> An example would be the meta widget, I use different sidebar for diff
>>> templates and it would be nice to log in in different templates
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 7-Aug-08, at 2:25 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Err.. what? Any multi-widget can be in multiple sidebars, unless I'm
>>>> misunderstanding you.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Shane Pearlman <shane at shaneandpeter.com
>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> As part of a project we are having to enable a grip of widgets to
>>>>> work in
>>>>> multiple sidebars. Some of you will probably be receiving emails
>>>>> from us
>>>>> about the plug-in / widgets you have build being multi'd to see if
>>>>> you want
>>>>> to add in our retrofit.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering if anyone has gone to the effort of enabling the
>>>>> default
>>>>> wordpress widgets for multiple sidebars? If so, can we use that code?
>>>>>
>>>>> if not, we'd be happy to contribute it towards the 2.7 release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -S
>>>>>
>>>>> Shane
>>>>> www.shaneandpeter.com
>>>>> 831.345.7033
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