Blogging Fool

Dear Automattic / WordPress Developers:

I don’t ask for much.  In fact, I like to give.  That is why I evangelize the virtues of your excellent platform.  I am, however, asking for something today.  Just a little helper in this big old world we call the Internet.  You know those little widget thingies we love so much?  They give our sites interactivity, dynamically updated content, context-based ads, mailing list sign-up forms and all sorts of other marvels.  The most powerful among these may be the one simply titled “Text” wherein one may submit all manner of custom code.  This is like the gift of free will.

But what happens when I want to take one away?  It just vanishes into the ether, gone into the void forever.  In order to restore it, I would have to dig up whatever site, login, affiliate ID, ad provider and whatever cute color scheme to get that code back.  Sure there is Notepad, an excellent way of saving these snippets.  There is also OneNote, Excel, Word and so on, but I like to keep my laptop clean and all those little filenames have a funny way of becoming meaningless when numbering in the hundreds.

So all I ask is, can you please, on the ninth day, create a “Publish/Unpublish” feature for my widgets?  A little server-side cookie that lets me change my mind, reverse my impulsive action, go back in time, save for posterity – those little trinkets of functional love I have worked so hard to collect?

If a tree falls in the forest…

Thank you Automattic / WordPress developer,

The Blogging Fool.

Do you know a way to store widgets when removed from the sidebar?

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