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Possible to save/store widgets and their content?

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jhoughton1
10 years ago · Last reply by jhoughton1 10 years ago

I am using four “featured block widgets” on my landing page. They tend to be static, but occasionally I’d like to replace one with a current issue that demands immediate attention by my community. Once that issue is past or resolved, I’d like to put back the original “Please Donate” static block. It’s a nuisance to rewrite all that content — it would be so cool if there were a parking lot for widgets and their content that perhaps I want to take down for a brief period, then put back up. Is there a way to do this, or am I making a “feature request”?

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  1. Alex S Staff 10 years, 28 days ago

    Hi Jhoughton1,

    Technically this isn’t possible out of the gate. You could, however, set up a “parking lot” post and then pull in the post data via a layout builder widget and remove the “irrelevant” sections as necessary.

    For reference, you can Clone other pages / posts by clicking the prebuilt layout button and then going to one of the clone links in the sidebar.

    Let me know if this helps.

  2. jhoughton1 10 years, 28 days ago

    Here's what I came up with — you tell me if I'm going to blow up my site.
    I dropped a new row into the page, dragged it to the bottom. In editing row mode I added

    display: none; to CSS Styles in attributes.

    Now I have an invisible row. I dropped the widget I want to store in there and bingo — it's invisible, too! Now I create my new, temporary featured block where the old one was with a new widget. It updates fine and the
    "stored" widget stays invisible. To see if the round-trip was going to work, I deleted the new widget and dragged the old one out of invisibility limbo and…it worked just like before.

    Presto! Or am I screwing something up?

    Thanks.

  3. Alex S Staff 10 years, 25 days ago

    Hi Jhoughton1,

    Sorry for the delay!

    No that sounds like a good workaround. I would however, suggest storing them in a layout builder widget so you can easily keep track of the widgets.

  4. jhoughton1 10 years, 25 days ago

    Thanks!

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