[theme-reviewers] question on widget areas

Sayontan Sinha sayontan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 17:26:49 UTC 2011


I normally use the "description" parameter of the register_sidebar function
to indicate any special considerations of the sidebar. It tends to reduce
questions from users.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Does the Theme provide documentation (e.g. readme.txt) explaining the
> design intent/limitations for the Widget Areas?
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:
>
>>  Sometimes, it may just be part of the design.  The most common area with
>> this would be a header widget.  Headers may often have a limited height and
>> only support something the size of an advertisement image.  I've done this a
>> few times in the past few years and haven't once had a user ask why they
>> couldn't add more stuff.  It just made sense to them.
>>
>>
>> On 4/6/2011 7:54 AM, Edward Caissie wrote:
>>
>> Also take into consideration, as you noted, this may be by design. Did the
>> author already make reference to this in the Theme's documentation?
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone ... Cais.
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 5:33 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Another thing, if I may add. When testing units you should do that in
>> several different browsers IE7+, Chrome, FF etc, in all an each of them the
>> design should look good, without any rendering issues. IE6 is 'dead' so that
>> you do not have to.
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2011 4:28 AM, "Emil Uzelac" <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>>  If something is cut-off or not displayed properly, sure you may report
>> that as well.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Apr 6, 2011 3:42 AM, "carolina n" <myazalea at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > All widgets must dis...
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