Looks great!!! We can finally drag widgets in between sidebars easily and efficiently again! Thank you.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Paleo Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > All works here... so far, there's an error, believe me, you'll know about > it. ;-P > > (warning the following might have wordy derd or two, or as it is commonly > known as, a swear word or two in it...) > > In an sorta related, and sorta not item. I have hosting with site5.com. > They're doing server upgrades, and anyways, I did the update to the latest > build and I notice the new widget layout. Anyways, I wanted to add a little > square banner to my Blog, and so, I went and snagged the code, and was > going > to add it to a preexisting widget. So, I pasted said code and hit save and > I > see the swirl, going around and around and around... and I'm thinking > "Uh-oh...." and I hit refresh, and sure enough, dead flippin' server, no > response, I let out a very long drawn out "ooooohhh Fuuuuuuck....." and > went > over to tech support and started the process of finding out what exactly > happened, and what I broke. > > Well, believe it or not, It wasn't me. They were doing server upgrades an > guess who's got done first... Mine. When the support tech guy told me that, > I nearly died laughing, I would have loved to been the fly on the wall > during that tech support meeting! "Yeah, let's do the server that the > asshole political blogger is on FIRST, he's very picky and the minute the > server goes down, he is on us like a mad man!" LOL! Anyhow, the server was > back up in like 5 minutes. I was able to add my code without any trouble at > all. > > It might not be as funny to you guys, but for me, it was the best laugh I'd > had in a while. You know you're important when they upgrade your server > first! LOL! > > -Paleo Pat > http://www.politicalbyline.com > > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Andrew Ozz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does everything on the widgets page work as expected? Anything that feels > > awkward/hard to use? Any widgets that fail to save or bring js errors? > > > > It's all AJAX-ified and all sidebars (including the Available Widgets > area) > > can be folded to make it easier to use on smaller screens. The Inactive > > Widgets area is for storing widgets that are configured but not in any > > sidebar at the moment. Also when changing themes if the new theme has > less > > sidebars than the old one, all widgets from the extra sidebar(s) are > moved > > to Inactive. > > > > Dan Milward wrote: > > > >> I agree it looks very nice. > >> > > > > The look isn't fully completed yet. Hopefully it will look even nicer :) > > > > Does anybody know if a more advanced widget management is coming for > >> 2.8 launch? We'd like to contribute code to that - we reckon it is > >> important to specify which pages/posts widgets display on... kinda > >> like slayers but with better UI :P > >> > > > > Don't think there will be any significant feature changes any more. We > are > > getting close to first beta for 2.8, not enough time left. Also the > code/API > > has to stay backwards compatible. > > > > Will probably revisit widgets for 2.9 when (hopefully) all widgets will > be > > using the new multi-widget class so we can streamline the API functions > and > > add features without breaking compatibility. > > > > On the other hand if you need more hooks, choose a good place that won't > > limit future changes and open a ticket. In the worst case it will be left > > for 2.9. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wp-testers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
