[theme-reviewers] Sidebars/Widgets Aren't Required...

[Justin Tadlock]

One-column themes are reasonably common.  Of course, some of those 
support footer widgets.  The theme I'm working on now doesn't support 
widgets at all.

Also, just for reference, we specifically got this pushed into WP 3.5 so 
that we could allow themes to not support dynamic sidebars without 
confusing users (removes Widgets screen if theme doesn't support widgets):
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21761

I agree that this should be "recommended" in Theme Check.

On 8/18/2013 1:32 PM, Edward Caissie wrote:
> If we removed the requirement, then shouldn't we also get the upload 
> check (Theme Check) modified?
>
> I think sidebars should still be RECOMMENDED (or at worst an INFO 
> check). I do not have any issue with sidebars not being supported just 
> cannot think of a common use-case. There are obviously some niche 
> use-cases and that is why I think it should at least show as a 
> RECOMMENDED item.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net 
> <mailto:chip at chipbennett.net>> wrote:
>
>     We explicitly removed the requirement for Themes to support
>     dynamic sidebars in the WordPress 3.5 guidelines revision.
>
>
>     On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Edward Caissie
>     <edward.caissie at gmail.com <mailto:edward.caissie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Is the intent for the theme not to have sidebars?
>
>         Although technically possible it would also be strongly not
>         recommended. What would be the benefit of not having sidebars
>         available in the theme?
>
>         Edward Caissie
>         aka Cais.
>
>
>         On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Bryan Hadaway
>         <bhadaway at gmail.com <mailto:bhadaway at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             So, how do we get past the theme check?:
>
>               * REQUIRED: Could not find *register_sidebar() or
>                 register_sidebars()*. See: register_sidebar
>
>                   <?php register_sidebar( $args ); ?>
>
>               * REQUIRED: Could not find *dynamic_sidebar*. See:
>                 dynamic_sidebar
>                 <http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar>
>
>
>                   <?php dynamic_sidebar( $index ); ?>
>
>             Thanks
>
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