[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40951: New Text Widget - Switching Between Visual/Text Editor Strips Out Code

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#40951: New Text Widget - Switching Between Visual/Text Editor Strips Out Code
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 Reporter:  dwrippe                              |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |  westonruter
 Priority:  normal                               |      Status:  accepted
Component:  Widgets                              |   Milestone:  4.8.1
 Severity:  major                                |     Version:  4.8
 Keywords:  needs-testing has-unit-tests has-    |  Resolution:
  patch                                          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Ipstenu):

 Replying to [comment:109 azaozz]:
 > Replying to [comment:103 westonruter]:
 > > ...users are accustomed to pasting HTML into the Text widget, and they
 aren't used to first having to click the Text tab.
 >
 > That may be, but how often are the users editing their text widgets and
 how often are they editing or writing posts? IMHO the users are accustomed
 to use the editor much more than the text widget. It will be
 easy/convenient for them to (re)use that experience. No need of so much
 "hand holding" :)

 Here's how it happens: I am used to writing posts and I know I can't use
 icons. I haven't update my widgets in forever, though, and I go to fix a
 URL or change one in a custom text widget and now my site looks like crap
 and all I did was save the widget! What happened?

 And yes, that happened to me who knows better. I got it, right away, that
 the world had changed and why, but the same cannot be said of people who
 use the features even less often. It's a problem of rarely-executed code.
 People are less likely to recognize the reasons something broke/change if
 they don't have to dig into it very often. Based on the support forums, I
 think it's not huge, but definitely bigger than anticipated, so a bit of
 handholding is needed.

 I have some edge cases to happily test when this hits trunk!

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