[theme-reviewers] Question about removing default widgets

[Justin Tadlock]

It can be an archive widget, posts widget, or something like that. 
Another good example is a combination of the tags and categories widgets 
into a super-cool taxonomy/terms widget.  That'd be neat to see.

On 2/28/2013 10:39 PM, Josh Pollock wrote:
> So we're clear, your argument is that beacuse I can set your Archive 
> widget to show all posts in ascending order by date beginning from the 
> present, the default Recent Posts widget's functionality is duplicated?
>
> If so, I still don't think think it is reasonable to believe that a 
> regular user would figure this out like I did. I think a regular user 
> would go looking for the Recent Posts widget and see that its missing 
> and decide that it was impossible to show recent posts in a widget.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Justin Tadlock 
> <justin at justintadlock.com <mailto:justin at justintadlock.com>> wrote:
>
>     Not necessarily.  The functionality is what's important.  For
>     example, one single widget might cover both the WordPress archives
>     and recent posts widget.  It just depends on the particular
>     widget(s).  In general though, yes, you'd need to replace any
>     widget that you removed.
>
>
>     On 2/28/2013 9:52 PM, Josh Pollock wrote:
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>>         1) It's a new widget, so you'd need to add it to the sidebar.
>>
>>
>>     Ok, because of what Chip just said. I think it should be required
>>     that replacement widgets have new names, but I don't make the rules.
>>
>>
>>         2) I don't understand.
>>
>>
>>     Typos on my part. Question should have been:
>>
>>      Do all widgets that are deregistered need to be replaced?
>>
>>
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>>         On 2/28/2013 9:03 PM, Josh Pollock wrote:
>>>         Two clarifying questions:
>>>
>>>         1) Do the upgraded widgets need to work automatically? Ie if
>>>         I ad the archive widget while using twentytwelve and switch
>>>         to the theme I'm reviewing, which has a custom archive
>>>         widget, is it OK that I no longer have the archive widget in
>>>         my sidebar and I have to ad the custom one?
>>>         2) Do all widgets that are reregistered need to be removed?
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