#17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes
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Reporter: lancewillett | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 3.3
Component: Widgets | Version: 2.9
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ux-feedback has-patch needs-testing |
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Comment (by azaozz):
Replying to [comment:69 trevogre]:
> ...The admin needs to keep the setting for each named sidebar.
Preferrably on a theme specific basis. So 2011 and 2010 can both have
thier own persistant widget configuration.
Having persistent widgets configs wouldn't work well. So the users can
have their old widgets back if they decide to switch themes after a year
or two? IMO that would be unexpected (at least) and probably considered a
bug. And what happens to all new widgets that were in use before the theme
change? We show them on the widgets screen as inactive? Imagine the user
tries 20-30 themes for couple of years, the widgets screen will be about
10 pages long and extremely complex, quite unusable.
> Widgets are a production side change to website layout... Not having
version control and rollback of any element of your site is not consistant
with best practices.
Rollback for individual widgets (and version control) is out of scope for
this ticket. Also think there were few older tickets about that. There are
also plugins that do this.
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