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Recent posts on the make/core blog

• Status Update: Porting Widgets to Blocks (December 17, 2018)
• Widget Improvements in WordPress 4.9 (October 24, 2017)
• Fixes to Text widget and introduction of Custom HTML widget in 4.8.1 (August 1, 2017)
• Addition of TinyMCE to the Text Widget (May 23, 2017)
• Pre-instantiated Widget Registration in 4.6 (July 6, 2016)

View all posts tagged widgets.

Recent posts on the make/test blog

• Adding a widget via the customizer, iPad Air, landscape (April 15, 2015)
• Remove a widget with the customizer, iPhone 6+ (April 3, 2015)

View all posts tagged widgets.

78 open tickets in the Widgets component

78 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request
5.1	3	0	0
5.1.1	1	0	0
5.2	2	1	0
Awaiting Review	25	11	0
Future Release	13	19	3

78 open tickets. Last 7 days: -4 tickets

3 tickets that have no replies

View list on Trac

• #42549  Widgets: Allow gallery widget to display images from currently-queried singular post if no images selected
• #44098  Widget classes when custom widget class is namespaced
• #44375  `update_option` in `WP_Widget::update` breaks Customizer

6 tickets slated for 5.2

View list in Trac

• #43137  Media widgets: Improve the image and gallery previews accessibility accessibility
• #43139  Gallery widget preview incorrectly updated after one image gets deleted javascript
• #43151  Media widgets shouldn't use a clickable div as an UI control ui accessibility javascript
• #43280  Add rel="noopener" to target="_blank" links by default in image widget
• #44450  Functions/methods do not return any value in classes should use @return void in method doc docs coding-standards
• #45029  Changes by widget_{$this->id_base}_instance_schema are overridden by sub class.

78 open tickets

Open bugs: 44. View list on Trac

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