text widget should have a text formatting option

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

people need it on sometimes, and off other times (e.g. for a javascript). having the option to do this out of the box would be convenient.

[JeremyVisser]

Um, shouldn't autop be kind of implied? I mean, it is a text widget. If you want to use it for JavaScript, well, that's not what it was designed for. Create a new widget instead.

[JeremyVisser]

...as in, create your own custom widget via a plugin that doesn't run autop on its body text.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

and for forms?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

see also ​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5118#preview

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

and ​http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5119

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

woops, nevermind those two last comments, they were for another ticket! :P

[Otto42]

Replying to JeremyVisser:

...as in, create your own custom widget via a plugin that doesn't run autop on its body text.

The text widget has always accepted straight, unformatted, html. Changing it like this in the middle of the game is kinda weak, a lot of people are using it for HTML, links, adsense scripts, etc.

This shouldn't be an option, it should not be doing autop on the text widget at all. If there's going to be options, then it should be the other way around entirely. wpautop should default to disabled.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Any odds we'll see this enhancement in the core at some point?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

please?

[DD32]

This sounds like an enhancement to current functionality, point releases are for bugfixes, So no, I highly doubt it.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

updated patch for wp 2.8

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

I'd really like to stop needing to maintain my text widgets plugin, and mark it as "not useful as of WP 2.8".

It's just gory to scan through the widgets one by one, check if it's a text widget, and then replace the various callbacks as needed. (Using the new method, replacing the widget altogether is probably a better option, too...)

The same holds for link widgets (which also has a tried and tested patch): #9449

[Otto42]

Still -1 on this. I can see no need or reason to have this on the text widget.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Pardon, but... you might not see a use for this, but users who just want to insert two paragraph of text without needing to manually insert the paragraph tags definitely do.

These users include my many customers. For what it's worth as an information, they maintain, combined, several thousand sites. This lacking "feature" is one of those things that they immediately spot when my plugin happens to break during a WP upgrade.

To date, I've worked around the limitation with a text widgets plugin. It proceeds by replacing the built-in WP widget with a clone of the WP widget with the correct options. I'd honestly hate to need to rewrite it to fit the new WP architecture.

The patch would hit three birds with a single stone: the text widgets plugin (which currently leaves a WP 2.8 text widget untouched) would no longer be needed, sites that were using it wouldn't even notice (since the added setting is the same), and it would add a highly appreciated functionality to WP.

[Otto42]

Replying to Denis-de-Bernardy:

Pardon, but... you might not see a use for this, but users who just want to insert two paragraph of text without needing to manually insert the paragraph tags definitely do.

Wouldn't it be simpler to, you know, just add the paragraph tags? This just seems like unnecessary functionality for edge cases, at best.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Not everyone likes to insert html tags in their content. I could name dozens of users who get nauseated whenever they see html code.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

could a core dev get in here and either commit or close as wontfix?

[ryan]

(In [11018]) Add option to run wpautop for text widget. Props Denis-de-Bernardy. fixes #5113