[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #32065: Hide entire RSS widget when no items to display

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#32065: Hide entire RSS widget when no items to display
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 Reporter:  MadtownLems  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Widgets      |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 When a default RSS widget has no items to display, the following text is
 displayed: "An error has occurred, which probably means the feed is down.
 Try again later."

 I don't believe that this message is particularly useful to readers and
 suggest that in the event that an RSS Widget is - for whatever reason -
 unable to display any items, that the widget just doesn't appear at all,
 rather than display an unhelpful and ugly message.

 An alternative implementation is to conditionalize this output with
 something like current_user_can( 'edit_theme_options' ).  This would allow
 users who can actually control Widgets to still see the output, but
 standard readers wouldn't have to see it.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32065>
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