[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18561: Better Way to Insert Things Below Individual Posts

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#18561: Better Way to Insert Things Below Individual Posts
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 Reporter:  jane         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:  3.2.1
 Severity:  minor        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by satollo):

 Themes are too much different to standardize them. Even if there are some
 commons parts on each theme, breaking up them with too much part is not so
 good (IMHO). I prefer an approach like the sidebar.

 There are many themes that use the sidebars to define NOT sidebars but
 generic content area. Technically a theme can define sidebars even before
 and after the post or after the title and the user can add widgets there.

 If widgets will be created to add social button with that kind of sidebars
 in mindthe problem is solved... even if the average user (in my
 experience) is not very skilled with widgets.

 An alternative is to define "template zones". A theme can "declare" as
 many zone as it wants, may be some zones can be documented as de facto
 standard. On that zones the theme calls do_action('zone_{name}') while it
 declared register_zone({name/id}, 'Long descriptive name').

 The declaration is used by plugins for their configuration panel so they
 can ask: "where do you want to inject the social button" showing a list of
 checkboxes or a drop down selection. Plugins will call "get_zones()" to
 have all defined zones.

 This is far wawy more simple that writing a widget, the plugin must only
 attach to the action and print out the content...

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