wp-includes/widgets.php “widget_many” example doesn’t work

Howdy guys.

I am in the process of creating my own custom theme and would like to create a couple of custom widgets to go along with it.

Widgets are easy to create, but I came across a need for a “many widget” which you provide an example for in wp-includes/widgets.php

This code doesn’t work — after days of trying to get my widget to work following your example I finally just commented out my code entirely and cut/pasted your ‘many_widget’ example into my functions.php file.

The “Many” control shows up and you can add items to it, however upon reloading the page anything you added is gone. (Which is exactly what I was experiencing with my attempt earlier). The data is in the database in the wp_options table, but its not being adhered to.

I have no solution for fixing this, but its clearly broken at this time.