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View Poll Results: When coding Wordpress skins, are your sidebars widget-ready?
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No
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07-06-2007, 11:16 AM
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 Wordpress Coders: Widget-ready?
This is mainly directed at those that offer Wordpress skinning as a service:
When coding Wordpress skins, do you code sidebars so they're widget-ready?
If not, why?
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07-06-2007, 12:20 PM
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If I'm skinning for myself, yes... If the clients ask for it, yes... Else no, but don't ask me why... never caring for it I guess 
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07-06-2007, 02:52 PM
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You should always code sidebars widget-ready, even if you're doing it for yourself. What happens if you want to use a widget  ?
Zack
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07-06-2007, 03:43 PM
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I voted no because I haven't the slightest clue when I code wordpress templates. I just know how to slap a design on, sorta make it work right and start posting. Novice wordpresser right here.
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07-06-2007, 04:03 PM
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Yeah, too be honest, I'm not sure what you mean by widget ready. I possibly could be doing it already, but I don't think so.
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07-06-2007, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Andrew R 
Yeah, too be honest, I'm not sure what you mean by widget ready. I possibly could be doing it already, but I don't think so.
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Widget ready sidebars, are basically those that are coded using nested lists.
Code:
<ul>
<li><h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><h2>Archive</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><h2>Blogroll</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Some link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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07-06-2007, 04:16 PM
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Fancy term for something so simple, in that case. When coding Wordpress sidebars that don't require bullet-points, I use definition lists. So although I despise coding Wordpress, when I do I code them widget-friendly? How nice to know!
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07-06-2007, 09:37 PM
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Depends on the theme... not all of them are designed with enough flexibility in mind to allow widgets.
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07-06-2007, 09:56 PM
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Yeah, i do it. But, i've never heard the term 'widget ready' used for it.
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07-06-2007, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue Ire
Depends on the theme... not all of them are designed with enough flexibility in mind to allow widgets.
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If you are willing to compromise slightly and use some creativity, there arn't many situations where you can't use wigits. You know, you can actually have as many sidebars that have wigits, as you want in your design, and the user can add or remove wigits from each of those sidebars. Anyways, I think wigits are a pretty cool idea and really arn't any extra work to use in layouts in my opinion...it's just messing with styling, which you should be doing wigits or no wigits.
Only thing I have with wigits is the Search wigit....it really needs to include an id with the input tag for submit so you can modify it :S Hopefully, they will address that in the next version (you can fix that temporily though in wigits.php).
Things get tricky with wigits if you want wildly different sidebar items, though, it seems more of a convieniencece to the client to have him or her be able to modify her sidebar easily, but, it's really there choice I guess.
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