Implementing custom widgets tends to start going into the darker side of the gray area in the Theme / Plugin debate.
Although using (custom) widgets is generally
considered to be something that should be left to the
end-user's discretion. That being said, if the Theme is built and focused around a
particular custom widget/plugin then I can see supporting its use,
otherwise I would agree with the end-user's content should by
default be shown first.<br><br>Granted this is generally not the case with
pre-installed widgets requiring a specific username setting but they can
be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Your use of Matt's Flickr feed as
example data may be fine, but following from that example the case in question would still be: is the theme all about using Flickr?<br><br>Just some thoughts ...<br>
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<br clear="all">Cais.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That's a good solution, also.<div><br></div><div>Though, with something like a Twitter feed Widget, or a Flickr photostream Widget, I would lean heavily toward such functionality being Plugin territory to begin with.</div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">Chip</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, c.bavota <<a href="mailto:c@bavotasan.com" target="_blank">c@bavotasan.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> So how should this be handled for widgets the require a username for<br>
> their content to be displayed? Is the username of the theme author not<br>
> acceptable?<br>
<br>
</div>Just leave it empty, and detect that and display nothing when it's empty.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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