WordPress Ideas » Topic: Option To Duplicate Widgets

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 03:37:32 +0000

The functional difference between a plugin and having the code in core, as regards to making your site 'heavy' is nonexistent. It's the same net effect.

LoisReed on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

LoisReed — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:26:20 +0000

I have many sites with custom sidebars and this feature would be most welcome. I don't like to have my sites be plugin heavy but I guess I will have to add yet another

LoisReed on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

LoisReed — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:28:34 +0000

I have a site with many custom sections. it is actually 5 sites in one. Therefor I have many custom sidebars and would love to clone widgets

nawafdevil on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

nawafdevil — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:32:30 +0000

I think i have a option in my widgets section that shows to clone the widget.i think its because of Jetpack plugin

jeyjoo on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

jeyjoo — Mon, 09 May 2016 18:49:28 +0000

I find that hard to believe - is there really no way to duplicate a widget without a plugin?

xberg on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

xberg — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:01:05 +0000

I also would really really love this. I have a dozen different sidebars and it's terrible having to change the settings of each widget everywhere.

Trishah on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

Trishah — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:51:43 +0000

I vote for adding it to the core.

I try to use the least number of plugins possible to achieve what my clients need as the more plugins the more possibility of conflicts, failures, and bogging down the site.

And, as others have said here, some widgets have a lot of configurations that are time consuming to setup. For instance, "Special Recent Posts FREE Edition" which I use often. It's so frustrating to have to go through each instance of the widget and setup all the areas just to tweak one setting.

SickNick on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

SickNick — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:08:36 +0000

Well i've tried both plugins and they are not working. Maybe because they are just old.

Right now, and before land to this page, i was looking for how to avoid to start over with a new sidebar. I have 15 widgets showing on sidebars and i must add the 10 of them from the beginning.

So yes, a built-in functionality would be useful.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:59:25 +0000

Let me put it a different way.

The age of a plugin, it's last updated date, should never be your only data point when deciding the value of a specific plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-probation/

Works just fine :) It's old, it's not been touched, but it's well coded and works just fine. The fact that one of the lead devs of WP wrote it is, in my opinion, more important than the updated date.

Using plugins that old is foolish...

No. It's not. Using a plugin and only using it's age as a determining factor in it's value is incomplete. Look at the whole picture. Who wrote it, how they wrote it, what their standing is in the community, and what the reviews/comments are on it.

But don't just say "Oh it's old, it must be bad."

Dima Stefantsov on "Option To Duplicate Widgets"

Dima Stefantsov — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:39:27 +0000

I'd use them if that "old" plugins would work. They have bugs. Oomph one breaks widgets functionality, it's reported in it's comments, no fix yet.

Would indeed love built-in functionality to clone widget. Or a working plugin for that.

Why I need this? I want same widget to be shown in different places with a bit different settings. Workflow would be to clone, add conditional logic "is_mycondition()" (done via separate plugin), change just the little bit I need changed.
Now I have to create this widget ground up and make sure I set everything exactly like in first one.