[wp-hackers] Programmatic Widget Handling

[Peter Westwood]

On 20 Oct 2010, at 17:48, scribu wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jeremy Clarke <jer at simianuprising.com>wrote:
> 
>> WP needs this badly. Among other automation-related uses it would be great
>> if themes could define initial widgets for their widget zones in
>> functions.php rather than having hard-coded alternate content (which
>> confuses users who go to Appearance > Widgets and see nothing there to
>> explain what's already visible on the site).
>> 
> 
> Doesn't twentyten already do this?

Not as far as I know - we haven't got an api which makes it easy.

Cheers
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