[theme-reviewers] Unregister core plugins

[Chip Bennett]

I think we should recommend *not* replacing core Widgets in general. But I
think other than the Text Widget, none represent generation - or potential
loss - of user data. (Most are lists of Posts or Terms, in various
contexts.) So IMHO the Text Widget would factor into
presentation-vs-functionality, because if a user creates text content in a
Text Widget, if that Widget is registered by the Theme (whether it replaces
the core Text Widget or not), that user-created text data would be lost
when the Theme is deactivated.

Note: I have the same concern with some other Theme-registered Widgets,
such as Ad Widgets; if the user adds an ad image or text, that content is
then lost (well, buried in theme_mods).


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net>wrote:

> .. Isn't this the same as having shortcodes though?  since the new theme
> wouldn't have the ability to use it so the data is as said lost .. as the
> people who want shortcodes to be gone made a point as being the reason;
> just wondering if that's not pretty much the same.
>
> Not rehashing, just curious; because it's an interesting thought.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Paul Appleyard
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:43 AM
> To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Unregister core plugins
>
>
> I would think that as long as the core widget functionality is
> unaffected, it wouldn't be an issue; that is, if they change themes
> there's no visible affect.
>
> Paul Appleyard
>
> On 7/08/2013 3:38 AM, Otto wrote:
>
>> I would say that it's generally a bad idea, because people might get
>> confused when their widgets disappear after changing themes.
>>
>> Instead of replacing the core widgets, create your own with the theme
>> name in them. So instead of "Text" widget, you could add one that says
>> "Themename - Text" to show that it's specific to the theme. Then
>> people won't be surprised when it disappears on theme changing.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Mattia Migliorini <deshack at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> In my theme (which is now under reviewing) I unregistered a pair of core
>>> widgets in order to substitute them with my own ones, because I needed to
>>> integrate them with Bootstrap.
>>>
>>> Is it allowed to unregister core plugins or not?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Mattia Migliorini
>>>
>>>
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