[wp-hackers] Themes not all they should be?

[Elliott Bäck]

Forgive me if this has come up before.  I just started my transition to 
WP 1.5, and I was all excited about themes, until I realized that they 
were just packaged, pluggable versions of the old wordpress layout 
ideology.  Snap in a layout, switch to another one, etc.  Instead, I was 
hoping that what "themes" meant was an extendable set of data-regions 
stored centrally that then filtered through the "view" of different 
themes.  For example, say I want a sidebar, links, categories, posts, 
asides, and a custom region called "my-picture-of-the-day."  Then, I had 
imagined that all themes would then render my data regions as appropriate.

Obviously this is not the behavior of 1.5, but is this model worth 
looking into?

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Thanks,
Elliott C. Bäck

607-229-0623
http://elliottback.com