[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12354: WP_WidgetArea class

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#12354: WP_WidgetArea class
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 Reporter:  jimisaacs    |       Owner:  scribu              
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release      
Component:  Widgets      |     Version:                      
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  widgets dev-feedback
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Comment(by jimisaacs):

 Well it is time to get back to thinking about this since the release of
 3.0. I've had a look through the new concepts with joining of the
 multisite, the drop-in caching functionalities etc.

 It looks as though WordPress is trying to become more of a base platform
 to build from, this combined with my new admiration of hiphop php it is
 changing my thought process on setting up widgets completely through a
 modular directory structure.

 Instead, the object oriented structure of the Widget's codebase should be
 the only thing to remain modular. It should allow for different views on
 the front-end and admin. The admin should be integrated into the
 Role/Capability API on a per widget group, per widget, and per widget
 setting group basis.

 What I am thinking about now, is just a better way to relate a widget to a
 widget group, and a widget group, and each of those to a number of
 different combinations of WordPress conditional contexts.

 To be integrated with Multisite, each widget group needs a relationship to
 a blog and/or a site. Now there is a choice with such conditionals as
 is_multisite() to using the a particular blog's tables, or the main site's
 tables, or the sitemeta table.

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