Widget ID attributes not unique

[harrysoup]

Hi,

In looking to validate one of my sites lately I have seen a number of things that might need to be tweaked to try and prevent them failing or producing errors.

The main one I have noticed for now is the amount of duplicate ID's that get created - in this particular case the widget function in default-widgets.php I have had to use unset($argswidget_id?); which is not ideal at all, to get round this issue, is there anything we could do to get a patch for this in the future?

Thanks,

Harry

[swissspidy]

Widget IDs are usually unique and numbered in ascending order. So if you use the recent posts widget twice you'll get recent-posts-1 and recent-posts-2.

Can you tell us which IDs where not unique? Also try to disable all plugins and switch to one of the default themes to see if it goes away.

[afercia]

As far as I can tell, core outputs unique IDs for widgets. Maybe close?