Just tried out this plugin for the first time and like the direction it's headed!

I think this plugin is great for those who are familiar with sidebars and have a good handle on their site; however, I notice that this interface doesn't as quickly show the user how many sidebars there are and how many widgets are in each. This is probably a strength of the core interface despite its other shortcomings.

This is an issue for anyone unfamiliar with how many sidebars a site/theme has, how many widgets are in each, etc. In general, I tend to think that more contextual information helps people more quickly develop a mental model of the site, usually for the better.

I'm not immediately struck with an elegant solution but here are a few ideas

• Add a widget count in parentheses after each sidebar in the select list. (e.g. "News Sidebar (3 widgets)"
• Add some brief text at the top of the page. Maybe "4 sidebars containing 9 widgets."
• Add a "X of Y" count to each sidebar's name in some places e.g. "News Sidebar (3 of 6)"

Nice work. I would like to suggest a feature. Sometimes you want to drag a configured widget from one sidebar to another. This is not possible when the plugin is active and you have to deactivate it to do so. It would be nice to allow to show all sidebars in the dropdown menu.

The new 3.6 menus interface uses a similar interface for selecting which menu to end. This plugin's output is already fairly similar and it would seem smart to make it match to help people more quickly learn how to use the plugin.

Hi,

I really like the look of this plugin, but the one issue I have is that they're called 'Sidebars'. While I guess that's what they're technically called, none of my less technical users are going to associate 'Header Right' with a 'Sidebar'.

In my opinions 'Select a Widget Area to Edit' and 'Select Widget Area', would be more appropriate strings.

This might sound incredibly nitpicky, but I work with a lot of users are are very very inexperienced with these sorts of things, and you'd be surprised by what confuses them sometimes.

Cheers,
Jacob

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