[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8979: widget disappears after clicking save changes

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#8979: widget disappears after clicking save changes
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 Reporter:  robfelty      |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  2.7.1
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  2.7  
 Severity:  minor         |    Keywords:       
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 Using wordpress 2.7, revision 10186, there is a possible bug in the widget
 handling. I noticed this for all 4 of the plugins I have written. They
 worked fine in WP 2.6, but in WP 2.7, when adding a widget, it would
 disappear from the widget list after saving changes. Eventually I found
 the problem to be that the id_base cannot be mixed case. At least,
 changing from mixed case to all lowercase solved the problem for my
 plugins. But I don't see why that the id_base should have to be all lower
 case. It seems like WP allows mixed case in most other situations. I have
 more details about the problem and my experiences on my blog:
 http://blog.robfelty.com/2009/01/06/the-right-3-bytes-or-wordpress-plugin-
 bugs-solved/

 I had users of my plugins report this issue in all major browsers. I
 suspect that the issue is somewhere in the wp_register_sidebar_widget
 function or the wp_register_widget_control function.

 Thanks for all your great work on wordpress!

 Rob

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