[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5113: text widget should have a text formatting option

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#5113: text widget should have a text formatting option
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy        |        Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new                      |    Priority:  normal     
Milestone:  2.8                      |   Component:  Widgets    
  Version:  2.7                      |    Severity:  normal     
 Keywords:  has-patch tested commit  |  
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Changes (by Denis-de-Bernardy):

  * keywords:  has-patch => has-patch tested commit


Comment:

 Pardon, but... you might not see a use for this, but users who just want
 to insert two paragraph of text without needing to manually insert the
 paragraph tags definitely do.

 These users include my many customers. For what it's worth as an
 information, they maintain, combined, several thousand sites. This lacking
 "feature" is one of those things that they immediately spot when my plugin
 happens to break during a WP upgrade.

 To date, I've worked around the limitation with a text widgets plugin. It
 proceeds by replacing the built-in WP widget with a clone of the WP widget
 with the correct options. I'd honestly hate to need to rewrite it to fit
 the new WP architecture.

 The patch would hit three birds with a single stone: the text widgets
 plugin (which currently leaves a WP 2.8 text widget untouched) would no
 longer be needed, sites that were using it wouldn't even notice (since the
 added setting is the same), and it would add a highly appreciated
 functionality to WP.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5113#comment:17>
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