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[OBSOLETE] Widget Customizer plugin for WordPress (now merged into Core)
http://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-customizer/
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Improve widget addition dropdown with autocomplete and searching #55

Closed westonruter closed 10 years ago

westonruter commented 10 years ago

See comment in #3, from @bobbravo2:

love the drop down for adding new widgets - that's what I was hoping for. What do you think about adding the Chosen jQuery plugin to enhance it with search (search a widget's description / title / possible alternate keywords for new users)?

westonruter commented 10 years ago

@bobbravo2 yes, I'd love to add Chosen or Select2 to improve the usability of the dropdown. From the Chosen demo, I assume the Standard Select or the Standard Select with optgroup would be the field we'd be interested in? I guess too we'll want to let the autocomplete match not only the title of the widget, but its description as well?

bobbravo2 commented 10 years ago

@westonruter My thinking EXACTLY! RE: Chosen: I think the standard select should work fine - it's an amazing plugin. Not sure we'd need an optgroup - unless we want to also add "hidden widgets" - then it'd make sense. RE: Autocomplete - yes, I totally agree - we want to make it super easy for people to find widgets - searching title + description is a great first step.

westonruter commented 10 years ago

This is being addressed in #58