<div dir="ltr">The way that Widgets currently work, there is no guarantee that Widgets that populate a particular dynamic sidebar in one Theme will populate a particular dynamic sidebar in any other Theme, because the dynamic sidebar IDs are not standardized. Widget configurations are stored as a theme_mod, with no expectation that Widget configuration (either specific Widgets in specific dynamic sidebars, or specific configuration of specific Widgets) will be the same from Theme to Theme.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Josh Pollock <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jpollock412@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpollock412@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Two clarifying questions:<div><br><div>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&#39;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?</div>


</div><div>2) Do all widgets that are reregistered need to be removed?</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">If others are good with <a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html</a><div>


I am as well :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Emil</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Fenn <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:danielx386@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielx386@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just to check my understanding, it&#39;s ok for me to replace the search<br>
widget and replace it with a better one?<br>
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Justin Tadlock<br>
<div><div>&lt;<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; It seemed pretty definitive to me since several us agreed on what was<br>
&gt; allowed and wrote up a new guideline.  I thought we had already added it to<br>
&gt; the rest of the Theme Review Guidelines.  Otherwise, I would&#39;ve made a note<br>
&gt; that we forgot to add it.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On 2/28/2013 7:06 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Not really sure if this was decided or not, but we talked about this for<br>
&gt; sure.<br>
&gt; Please see:<br>
&gt; <a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Justin Tadlock &lt;<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; It is OK.  This was decided by the theme review team last year:<br>
&gt;&gt; <a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009450.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009450.html</a><br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; On 2/28/2013 6:18 PM, Paul Appleyard wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; I thought it was OK to extend core functionality - as long as it RETAINED<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; the original functionality; ie didn&#39;t break when they switched themes. So,<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; replacing a widget with a custom one of the same name that had the original<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; functionality but with some added powers.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Paul<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; On 1/03/2013 9:34 AM, Otto wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Justin Tadlock<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; &lt;<a href="mailto:justin@justintadlock.com" target="_blank">justin@justintadlock.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; I disagree.  If we don&#39;t want developers ...<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; There is more than one type of developer.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Removing widgets makes perfect sense to be available for plugins<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; territory. Doesn&#39;t make sense for themes. Yet another form of<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; vendor-lock-in.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; -Otto<br>
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