[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39693: Fix missing assignment of widgets on theme switch

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#39693: Fix missing assignment of widgets on theme switch
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 Reporter:  melchoyce    |       Owner:  jonathanbardo
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Widgets      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by westonruter):

 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27404#comment:52 Comment] on
 #27404 (Widget Customizer: Allow adding inactive widgets to widget areas):

 > I'm going to suggest that widgets most commonly get moved to inactive
 widget area as the result of a theme switch (#39693). It would be very
 useful if widgets that were made inactive as part of a theme switch could
 be grouped in a way to easily batch-add them to a sidebar in the new
 theme. By grouping them I don't mean widget persistent groups (#19912),
 but rather transient groupings that essentially are pulling the grouping
 of widgets from another theme's widget-sidebar assignments. Being able to
 easily and intuitively re-assign widgets from the previous theme's
 sidebars to the new theme's sidebars, maintaining their ordering, would be
 a huge.
 >
 > If the old theme has 3 sidebars whereas the new theme as 2 sidebars,
 note that this could mean that 2 groupings of inactive widgets could be
 added to one sidebar on the new theme. Two additional questions then come
 to mind: should the best-guess re-assignment of widgets from the old
 sidebar's theme to a sidebar in the new theme be eliminated unless the
 sidebar IDs are exact matches (e.g. `sidebar-1`)? If not, then it is
 likely that a re-assignment of widgets in the new theme will be wrong and
 need to be re-assigned. In that case, there should have to be a way to
 bulk move all widgets from one sidebar to another.
 >
 > It may be that this theme-switch grouping is out of scope for this
 ticket and should instead be addressed as part of #39693.

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