[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16109: Preview wigdets before publish
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#16109: Preview wigdets before publish
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Reporter: JonezJeA | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Widgets | Version: 3.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by ericmann):
I don't think this would need a redesign of the architecture.
Each widget defines its own configuration and markup, yes. And that is
used by the theme. However, showing a preview of the widget's view would
be more like showing a preview of a new theme before activation (which is
already possible).
All we'd need to do is add a property to the WP_Widget object (from which
all widgets are derived) that defines whether or not a particular widget
instance is active. I assume we already have something similar to this
because you can store "inactive" widgets on the Widgets management panel.
But it should be relatively straight-forward to present a "what-if" view
of the site's home page with a specific set of widgets. This could render
in a lightbox similar to the theme preview.
So ... could we have this in 3.2? Maybe. Could we have this by 3.3?
Definitely.
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16109#comment:3>
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