[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4280: Allow to constrain widgets being displayed on certain page types only

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#4280: Allow to constrain widgets being displayed on certain page types only
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 Reporter:  torbens         |        Owner:  andy
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.6 
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.2 
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:      
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |  
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Comment (by silver25u):

 Looks like a lot of people are trying to re-invent the wheel here.  Some
 people may conceptually not like that SBM was widget based, but its
 usability was not hard at all and granted maximum granularity. You create
 a page and then pick where you want it to display. A different system
 would be akin to writing a post and then going to the exact opposite of WP
 to pick its category. You set visibility where you create/manage the
 object. Moving to per Page/Post based sounds good but then you get the
 problem of then having to create a second location to manage per
 category/type(post,page,error) widgets.  Managing those situations from a
 specific page/post doesn't work conceptually.  Yes, it would be great if
 there was the option on each page/post to pick the widgets for it, but it
 should be a "second" location to the main widget admin section.  Keeping
 conceptually similar makes the most efficient sense (it also seems logical
 and not backwards to me). There is no need to re-invent entire new
 sections of WP to handle this (like the proposed screencaps attached
 above) People like SBM (hence its addition request to WP) so why go around
 re-inventing it when it works efficiently?

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