[theme-reviewers] Unregistering default widgets

[Chip Bennett]

Because having two Widgets with equivalent functionality is redundant and
confusing, and adds to the already crowded/poor UX of the Appearance ->
Widgets screen. :)

Chip

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Konstantin Obenland
<konstantin at obenland.it>wrote:

> @chipbennett:
> You're referring to Oenology, right?
> Why are you deregistering the core Widgets, rather than just adding your
> custom ones? :)
>
> @Frumph
> What benefit does it have? Why not just *add* custom widgets to the
> existing ones?
> I think it would affect user experience, as they might expect certain core
> widgets to be there, and all over sudden they're gone or their behavior
> changed.
>
> Konstantin
>
>
> On 01.06.2012, at 14:00, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) wrote:
>
>   Q. Does it affect any plugins or other stripends if someone did
> deregister and reregister their custom widgets?
> A. No? (can’t think of any)
>
>
>
>  *From:* Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 01, 2012 4:43 AM
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Unregistering default widgets
>
> Actually, I use this. Mainly due to a lack of a better work-around (though
> I'm open to ideas). I needed to modify the container markup slightly, to
> implement the "show/hide" links for the Widgets. Rather than simply forking
> the core Widgets as *new* Widgets, I deregister the core Widgets, and then
> re-register my modified versions.
>
> I don't mind using a different approach, if anyone has a good suggestion.
> I mainly just don't want to load jQuery just for such a simple effect.
>
> Chip
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> I am pretty sure that this would be considered as "locking" the core
>> functionalities and not really sure what would be the reason and scenario
>> when author would unregister default widget and replace them with
>> Theme-specific. If this is not in review and I can't find it either, well
>> it should be for sure. Good eye Konstantin!
>>
>> My 2c!
>>
>> Emil
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Konstantin Obenland <
>> konstantin at obenland.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I didn't find documentation on whether it is allowed for Theme authors
>>> to unregister default widgets.
>>> Is it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Konstantin
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