[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51506: Add new block widgets editor

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#51506: Add new block widgets editor
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 Reporter:  isabel_brison    |       Owner:  noisysocks
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  5.7
Component:  Widgets          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch early  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by helen):

 For history and for when we return to this, I'm going to leave my "didn't
 make it for 5.6" thoughts here because they are to inform how we see the
 feature for core readiness:

 My question for features that affect the front-end is "can I try out this
 new thing without the penalty of messing up my site?" - that is, user
 trust. At this current moment, given that widget areas are not displayed
 anything like what you see on your site without themes really putting
 effort into it and that you have to save your changes live without
 revisions to get an actual contextual view, widget area blocks do not
 allow you to try this new feature without penalizing you for
 experimenting.

 Add to that that the customizer currently includes jumping to edit in
 context (avoiding the need to map esoteric names to visual areas that
 might change in different screen sizes), live and even real-time
 previewing of changes, saving a draft of your changes, and scheduling your
 changes for later, and it makes it really hard to justify making updates
 to what is, frankly, the subpar experience of the separate widgets screen.
 It also is very jarring to visit the customizer after having added blocks
 to widget areas because of the way blocks are displayed and handled in
 that context, and users should be able to flow between whatever works for
 them freely, not be forced into one or the other without benefit to them.

 So, when we come back to this again, let's keep sight of what it means to
 keep users feeling secure that they can get their site looking the way
 they want with WordPress, and not like they are having to work around what
 we've given them.

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