[theme-reviewers] No Widget areas and sidebar

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Sat May 31 14:18:38 UTC 2014


Themes are not required to implement dynamic sidebars. They are an
optional/recommended feature.


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:16 AM, nithin kr <nithinkr09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> @emiluzelac, Theme check shows "RECOMMENDED: This theme contains no
> sidebars/widget areas. See Widgets API
> <http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API>", in debug mode there isn't any
> NOTICE visible.
>
> And if there isn't any widget area, how will a user implement a plugin
> which have widgets?
>
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Don't call get_sidebar(). :)
>>
>> The Theme either needs to remove get_sidebar(), or else needs to
>> implement the feature.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> if one is not included how do you avoid the notice?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, May 31, 2014, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sidebars and widgets are not required.  They're not really recommended
>>>> either.  Sometimes, sidebars simply don't fit within a theme's design.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:54 AM, nithin kr <nithinkr09 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> One of the theme which I'm reviewing doesn't have sidebar.php and
>>>>> widget area, so is it required to incorporate those features or does that
>>>>> fall under recommended?
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18552>
>>>>>
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