[theme-reviewers] Question about removing default widgets

[Chip Bennett]

The way that Widgets currently work, there is no guarantee that Widgets
that populate a particular dynamic sidebar in one Theme will populate a
particular dynamic sidebar in any other Theme, because the dynamic sidebar
IDs are not standardized. Widget configurations are stored as a theme_mod,
with no expectation that Widget configuration (either specific Widgets in
specific dynamic sidebars, or specific configuration of specific Widgets)
will be the same from Theme to Theme.


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Two clarifying questions:
>
> 1) Do the upgraded widgets need to work automatically? Ie if I ad the
> archive widget while using twentytwelve and switch to the theme I'm
> reviewing, which has a custom archive widget, is it OK that I no longer
> have the archive widget in my sidebar and I have to ad the custom one?
> 2) Do all widgets that are reregistered need to be removed?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> If others are good with
>> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html
>> I am as well :)
>>
>> Emil
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Just to check my understanding, it's ok for me to replace the search
>>> widget and replace it with a better one?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Justin Tadlock
>>> <justin at justintadlock.com> wrote:
>>> > It seemed pretty definitive to me since several us agreed on what was
>>> > allowed and wrote up a new guideline.  I thought we had already added
>>> it to
>>> > the rest of the Theme Review Guidelines.  Otherwise, I would've made a
>>> note
>>> > that we forgot to add it.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 2/28/2013 7:06 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Not really sure if this was decided or not, but we talked about this
>>> for
>>> > sure.
>>> > Please see:
>>> >
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009455.html
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Justin Tadlock <
>>> justin at justintadlock.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> It is OK.  This was decided by the theme review team last year:
>>> >>
>>> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2012-June/009450.html
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 2/28/2013 6:18 PM, Paul Appleyard wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I thought it was OK to extend core functionality - as long as it
>>> RETAINED
>>> >>> the original functionality; ie didn't break when they switched
>>> themes. So,
>>> >>> replacing a widget with a custom one of the same name that had the
>>> original
>>> >>> functionality but with some added powers.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Paul
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 1/03/2013 9:34 AM, Otto wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Justin Tadlock
>>> >>>> <justin at justintadlock.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I disagree.  If we don't want developers ...
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> There is more than one type of developer.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Removing widgets makes perfect sense to be available for plugins
>>> >>>> territory. Doesn't make sense for themes. Yet another form of
>>> >>>> vendor-lock-in.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> -Otto
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