<p dir="ltr">Agreeing with Otto, this isn't the best practice and concurring with Chip and Mel as well. Core should not be unregistered, create your own instead.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Honestly, in the several years I've been doing this, I can't think of a single time this ever came up in my support forums. However, I do write a custom description for the newly-registered widgets, so that probably helps.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On 8/7/2013 3:07 PM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:<br>
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> on 07/08/2013 19:41 Edward Caissie said the following:<br>
>><br>
>> I've "drafted" it onto this Guideline page:<br>
>> <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-plugin-territory/">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-plugin-territory/</a><br>
>><br>
>> We may need to review this page's title to encompass widgets but let's<br>
>> start with a quick consensus on this wording.<br>
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> Just a thought but, if a theme is de-registering a core widget, should this be noted somewhere (eg the theme's readme.txt file & description)? I'm just thinking of how users might react if they suddenly see extra widget options appear/disappear with theme changes.<br>
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> Mel<br></p>
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