[theme-reviewers] Unregistering default widgets

Sat Jun 2 06:30:55 UTC 2012

That still retains the utilization and features of the original widget as well as the customizations of the new widget.

From: Konstantin Obenland 
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:19 PM
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org 
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Unregistering default widgets

Yeah, I can live with that! How would you phrase that for the Theme Review Codex page? 

  a.. Themes may OPTIONALLY unregister core Widgets 
    a.. If unregistered, Themes are REQUIRED to replace these Widgets with their own (extended) version

Something like that?
Konstantin

On 02.06.2012, at 05:20, Emil Uzelac wrote:

  So custom widget to replace a default widget while keeping default functionalities and extending them should be good and "removing" the core widgets without any replacement is not? If so that sounds good to me. 

  Emil

  On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:

      Deregistering core widgets should only be done if an enhanced version of that exact widget is registered that includes *all* of the original widget's functionality; otherwise just register a new *required theme-specific* widget.

    +1 on this. I recall reviewing a theme where the Recent Posts widget was deregistered and replaced with an "enhanced" widget with images and excerpts but didn't include option for the basic Recent Post functionality for just plain links. 

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