[theme-reviewers] Unregister core plugins

[Justin Tadlock]

Why has this guideline not already been added?

"Themes may OPTIONALLY unregister core Widgets. If unregistered, Themes 
are REQUIRED to replace these Widgets with their own (extended) version."

This has already been discussed and agreed on twice now.  Original threads:
http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/thread.html#9425
http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2013-March/thread.html#12031

On 8/7/2013 7:14 AM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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