Cardinal bug with custom sidebars/widgets

[FlawlessWeb]

Hi Ed,

I don’t think we are fully on the same page.

I am not asking for the custom widget areas created by Cardinal to remain when you disable the theme – I agree, that doesnt make any sense. They should disappear when another theme is enabled.

The issue is that after spending a lot of time creating the custom sidebars for your site using Cardinal and placing a lot of widgets into those sidebars, a lot of that work is effectively lost when you disable Cardinal and then re-enable it.

Here is the ideal use case scenario:

Cardinal is enabled:

#1. You create a custom sidebar, for example ‘Demo sidebar 1’
#2. Within that custom sidebar, you place the Swift Framework Tweets, Swift Framework video widget and the Swift Framework recent posts and configure those to your needs.

For testing purposes you need to disable Cardinal and the default Twentyfourteen theme is enabled.

#1. ‘Demo sidebar 1’ does not appear on the widgets page as Cardinal has been disabled.

Cardinal is re-enabled:

#1. ‘Demo sidebar 1’ appears again AND the swift framework widgets that were saved in that sidebar previously also appears again.

As things currently stands, that last step does not happen. The ‘Demo sidebar 1’ appears again fine, but the widgets that were saved within it are gone…

No idea if that plugin offers that, I just used it as an example to demonstrate the issue.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Ok, I see. Do they appear in the unused widgets column below the list of widgets?

I’ll chat to the redux guys about this when I get a chance.

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Hey Ed,

I just did a quick test there and they appeared in the ‘Inactive Sidebar (not used)’ (see screenshot) column. That doest make any sense because for my test I used the custom sidebar ‘Shortcodes menu widget’ that I created. That sidebar is still there on the widgets page, it just doesn’t have the widgets saved in it any-more after disabling Cardinal – enabling twentytwelve – re-enabling Cardinal…

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[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Thanks for the video, as per my email – will follow this up with Redux team when I can.

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Thanks Ed, hopefully they can put together a solution.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

No problem, will let you know when we get a reply

[FlawlessWeb]

Hey,

Any update on this issue?

Thanks

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Sorry, been waiting on Dovy to be back at work from leave. Have just pinged him an email with your comments.

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Ok thanks.

Holding off setting up the widgets on my demo site until this is resolved.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Thanks.
-Rui

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Dovy let me know that it is possible by including the plugin separate to the redux extension method – waiting on some code from him to set this up.

– Ed

[FlawlessWeb]

Thanks.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

No problem. Thanks Ed.
Let’s wait for the Redux code.

-Rui

[FlawlessWeb]

Hey Ed,

Just wondering if this is ready?

Thanks