[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48373: Widgets area grouping

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#48373: Widgets area grouping
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 Reporter:  dipakw           |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Widgets          |    Version:
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui               |
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 The recent wordpress project I have been working on is news magazine,
 which has over 30 widgets areas for some reasons. I find it so difficult
 to drag and drop widget to specific widget area, just for the reason that
 there are so much areas.

 We can also place widgets to an specific area by selecting name, but here
 too, so much names.

 I though that grouping areas would solve this problem, so, how do we
 group?

 {{{#!php
 <?php
 /**
  * `Homepage` group
  */
 register_sidebar(array(
   // Existing parameters +
   'name'  => __('Banner area', 'td'),
   'group' => 'Homepage' //@here
 ));

 register_sidebar(array(
   // Existing parameters +
   'name'  => __('Footer1', 'td'),
   'group' => 'Homepage' //@here
 ));

 /**
  * `Single page` group
  */
 register_sidebar(array(
   // Existing parameters +
   'name'  => __('Banner area', 'td'),
   'group' => 'Single page' //@here
 ));

 register_sidebar(array(
   // Existing parameters +
   'name'  => __('Footer1', 'td'),
   'group' => 'Single page' //@here
 ));
 }}}

 So, based on these sidebar registrations, wordpress will show dropdown
 having two options, Homepage and Single page on the widgets page right
 above areas listing.

 I think this thing is much likely to be related to core WP. I am
 interested to contribute WP too, but have never done before. Can I
 directly make pull request to git wordpress repo, or how do I?

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