[wp-hackers] Programmatic Widget Handling

[Jeremy Clarke]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Peter Westwood
<peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>wrote:

> It sounds like what you need is a comprehensive widget management api!
>
> The best way to get this is to work through the current widget code in
> wp-admin/widgets.php and try and abstract it out into an api which that code
> can use and your plugin can use.
>
> Submit this as a core patch and once it is included you will have an api to
> base your plugin on.
>
>
+1

WP needs this badly. Among other automation-related uses it would be great
if themes could define initial widgets for their widget zones in
functions.php rather than having hard-coded alternate content (which
confuses users who go to Appearance > Widgets and see nothing there to
explain what's already visible on the site).

-- 
Jeremy Clarke
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