<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I would say a Widget Area is appropriate for Ads. That way, the user does not lose the Ad content when switching Themes.<br>
</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This, but not because of lost content. It just makes a lot more sense for themes to set up user-configurable widget areas than to set up ad-specific areas. Widgets can contain anything, and a copy-pasta ad code works perfectly well in a text widget. But without being limited to ads, as a user can put any widget they like there.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>Making it more generic makes it fit more use cases.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>