[theme-reviewers] Question about removing default widgets

[Otto]

Yeah, that's no good.

Instead, he should add his own widgets, and they should all have the
Theme's name in them. This clues people in that if they switch the
theme, those widgets go away.

P2 does this, for example.

-Otto



On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe this is a silly first time reviewer question, but I have a question
> regarding de-registering the default widgets.
> The theme I am reviewing de-registers all default widgets, and replaces most
> of them with custom widgets of the same name with better functionality. This
> means that if a user is using one of the default widget before switching
> themes they disappear or if they are using a multi-widget that calls one of
> the default widgets an error is returned. Since not all of the default
> widgets are replaced some functionality is lost, for instance there is no
> ability to show recent posts using a widget.
> I think that this violates this rule:
> "The default WordPress widgets should work correctly in all widgetized
> areas."
>
> Am I right? The de-registering of widgets and registering of new widgets is
> noted properly in comments in the theme files. There is no readme.txt. Could
> this issue be settled by including a readme with a mention of this?
>
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