[theme-reviewers] Default sidebar widgets

[Edward Caissie]

Implementing custom widgets tends to start going into the darker side of the
gray area in the Theme / Plugin debate.  Although using (custom) widgets is
generally considered to be something that should be left to the end-user's
discretion. That being said, if the Theme is built and focused around a
particular custom widget/plugin then I can see supporting its use, otherwise
I would agree with the end-user's content should by default be shown first.

Granted this is generally not the case with pre-installed widgets requiring
a specific username setting but they can be addressed on a case-by-case
basis. Your use of Matt's Flickr feed as example data may be fine, but
following from that example the case in question would still be: is the
theme all about using Flickr?

Just some thoughts ...


Cais.


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> That's a good solution, also.
>
> Though, with something like a Twitter feed Widget, or a Flickr photostream
> Widget, I would lean heavily toward such functionality being Plugin
> territory to begin with.
>
> Chip
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, c.bavota <c at bavotasan.com> wrote:
>> > So how should this be handled for widgets the require a username for
>> > their content to be displayed? Is the username of the theme author not
>> > acceptable?
>>
>> Just leave it empty, and detect that and display nothing when it's empty.
>>
>> -Otto
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