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I've been de-registering core widgets and registering custom widgets
to replace them for years without any user problems.<br>
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De-registering widgets should not cause issues with core code. Core
provides the built-in functionality to do the de-registering.<br>
<br>
This is also not a niche use-case. This is one of the favorite
features of many of my theme users. Most of these users just have a
regular blog with nothing particularly niche about it. They just
like to have some level of control over how widgets are output,
which is what all my themes provide.<br>
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On 6/1/2012 7:59 AM, Edward Caissie wrote:
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cite="mid:CAE5CyMhH6kZKOagVOxiTH6tbx2F8t86jOb0xAWLEjXD71eGVTA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I'm leaning very strongly towards *not* de-registering
core widgets ... add as many (as reasonable) theme specific/custom
widgets you want, but I agree too much work has gone into insuring
widgets remain between themes. I would expect de-registering them
to cause issues with the core code.<br>
<br>
If this conversation was in regards to a non-repository theme I
probably would not see any issue as it would then likely also be a
niche use-case which typically is not the guiding principle behind
a theme released to the repository.<br>
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Cais.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:42 AM,
Konstantin Obenland <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:konstantin@obenland.it"
target="_blank">konstantin@obenland.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">For what it's worth:
<div>By extending the core widget and registering the
extending class, you can overwrite methods of the core
widget class: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gist.github.com/2851784" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/2851784</a></div>
<div>But honestly, I think that's even worse, because now
they <i>look</i> like a core widget but behave differently
:)</div>
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<div>Sorry, but I still don't buy in. :) Aren't we here on
the functionality side of Presentation vs. Functionality?
Where is the line between deregistering a core widget and
removing an image size (for the lack of a better example)?</div>
<div>Core worked so hard on providing the ability to retain
Widgets on Theme switch - and then the widgets themselves
are gone...</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div>Konstantin</div>
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<div>On 01.06.2012, at 14:25, Chip Bennett wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Because having two Widgets
with equivalent functionality is redundant and
confusing, and adds to the already crowded/poor UX
of the Appearance -> Widgets screen. :)
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<div>Chip<br>
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Konstantin
Obenland <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:konstantin@obenland.it"
target="_blank">konstantin@obenland.it</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">@chipbennett:
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<div>You're referring to Oenology, right?
<div>Why are you deregistering the core
Widgets, rather than just adding your
custom ones? :)</div>
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<div>@Frumph</div>
<div>What benefit does it have? Why not
just <i>add</i> custom widgets to the
existing ones?</div>
<div>I think it would affect user
experience, as they might expect
certain core widgets to be there, and
all over sudden they're gone or their
behavior changed.</div>
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<div>Konstantin</div>
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<div>On 01.06.2012, at 14:00,
Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) wrote:</div>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Calibri'">
<div>Q. Does it affect any
plugins or other
stripends if someone did
deregister and
reregister their custom
widgets? </div>
<div>A. No? (can’t think
of any)</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a
moz-do-not-send="true" title="chip@chipbennett.net"
href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net"
target="_blank">Chip
Bennett</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b>
Friday, June 01,
2012 4:43 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b>
Re:
[theme-reviewers]
Unregistering
default widgets</div>
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<div
style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Calibri';display:inline;font-weight:normal">Actually,
I use this. Mainly due
to a lack of a better
work-around (though I'm
open to ideas). I needed
to modify the container
markup slightly, to
implement the
"show/hide" links for
the Widgets. Rather than
simply forking the core
Widgets as *new*
Widgets, I deregister
the core Widgets, and
then re-register my
modified versions.
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<div>I don't mind using
a different approach,
if anyone has a good
suggestion. I mainly
just don't want to
load jQuery just for
such a simple effect.</div>
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<div>Chip<br>
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class="gmail_quote">On
Fri, Jun 1, 2012
at 3:19 AM, Emil
Uzelac <span
dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:emil@themeid.com" target="_blank">emil@themeid.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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class="gmail_quote"><font color="#333333"><font
face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I
am pretty sure
that this
would be
considered as
"locking" the
core
functionalities
and not really
sure what
would be the
reason and
scenario when
author would
unregister
default widget
and replace
them with
Theme-specific.
If this is not
in review and
I can't find
it either,
well it should
be for sure.
Good eye
Konstantin!</font></font>
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<div><font
color="#333333"
face="arial,
helvetica,
sans-serif">My
2c!<span><font
color="#888888"><br>
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color="#888888">
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color="#333333"><font
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<div><span><font
color="#888888"><font color="#333333"><font
face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Emil
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class="gmail_quote">On
Fri, Jun 1,
2012 at 3:08
AM, Konstantin
Obenland <span
dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:konstantin@obenland.it"
target="_blank">konstantin@obenland.it</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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class="gmail_quote">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I didn't find
documentation
on whether it
is allowed for
Theme authors
to unregister
default
widgets.<br>
Is it?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Konstantin<br>
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