On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Justin Tadlock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I could be wrong, but I think it was originally added when widgets were just getting added into core to replace the old "edit your sidebar.php" type of thing that users were forced to do. It was a way to tell theme authors to update their themes to use the new system. But, we're long past that point now.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>100% correct here. I agree we're past that point.</div></div>