[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19239: Combine WordPress News and Other WordPress News dashboard widgets

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#19239: Combine WordPress News and Other WordPress News dashboard widgets
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 Reporter:  jane                     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Administration           |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing  |
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Changes (by krogsgard):

 * cc: krogsgard (added)


Comment:

 I'm not sure the best place to bring it up, but I'd like to propose that
 the Planet feed be removed from the default feeds provided entirely. I
 believe it's poorly maintained, has an arbitrary selection of blogs
 listed, and is mostly irrelevant to your average WordPress user.

 Secondly, I'd propose the entire $default_feeds array be filterable as a
 whole, versus for each of the two inputs available, so that that could be
 the default "best practice" location for plugins to add their own news
 feeds, versus registering their own widgets. This could reduce clutter,
 and maybe some plugins would ditch their own RSS feed widgets if they
 could add their feed to this more default widget.

 A Planet-esque feed could be valuable, but it does not make sense to be in
 WordPress core to me. It's unnecessarily controversial in a small circle
 and I just don't see the purpose. And this is a great opportunity to
 remove it, since the entire dashboard is being re-thought.

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