[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #55595: Consider only registering widgets on themes that supports widgets

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#55595: Consider only registering widgets on themes that supports widgets
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 Reporter:  spacedmonkey  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  6.5
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:  performance
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Changes (by flixos90):

 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => 6.5


Comment:

 Prioritizing this to work on in the 6.5 milestone.

 We will need to find a way for widgets to be "lazyily" registered, i.e.
 only once a widget is needed, to support the cases where even in a theme
 that doesn't support widgets, `the_widget()` is called (e.g. in a block).
 Potentially this can be accomplished by registering the default widgets
 and firing the `widgets_init` action only once a widget is requested for
 rendering.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55595#comment:5>
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