Howdy!
The widgets team has been working hard! We’ve spent some time working with (and joining) the MP6 team to get a redesigned widgets screen into the latest version of MP6. If you haven’t seen it yet, download (or update) MP6, and you’ll get this beauty:
We’ve also created a new plugin named Widget Area Chooser, which lets you click to add a widget to any of your sidebars:
We’ve also made some great progress on the Widget Customizer plugin, which lets you manage your widgets from within the customizer:
How can you help?
This week, we’ll be focusing on getting the Widget Customizer plugin updated to let you add new widgets. If you want to join in, you can head over to GitHub and submit some patches, do some testing and add an issue, or just drop your ideas/thoughts. Or, you can just post a comment below and we’ll add you to our group Skype chat.
Also, we’d love some code review on the Widget Area Chooser plugin.
We’ll be meeting next week in #wordpress-ui at our normal time, October 28 @ 20:00 UTC.