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Part of me looks on at the new WordPress Widgets with derision: “Oh, great … more fancy-dancy geegaws that distract everyone while some architectural codebase issues go unsolved and good ideas go unaddressed.” Or, well, a mature feed format unsupported.
The rest of me—the part that’s a pragmatist and that really loves WordPress for what it can do, and not what it doesn’t do—loves the idea. Giving end-users flexibility? Awesome. Limiting the amount of time users need to be coding? Great!
Posted March 31st, 2006 in WordPress by Geof F. Morris.
I kinda agree. Personally I don’t have much use for these new fangled widget things… Still, remember that they were originally designed for use on WP.com, not self-hosted WP installs.
I imagine that these guys have a certain amount of time budgeted to each program they’re involved in (such as x hours for WP.com work, x hours for WP work), just to make sure neither gets neglected too much. If that were the case, it’s quite possible that widgets were a cool feature done in their WP.com time, and not actually at the expense of the time that could have been devoted to fixing / improving WP itself. Since they then wrapped up the widget code in a plugin and released it for WP too, everybody wins…
March 31st, 2006 at 14:51Well, I plan on offering it to the community I host. I’d say that 80% of those folks don’t know HTML from CSS.
March 31st, 2006 at 14:52I’ve already installed it on my customized install with no problems. Insert two lines immediately after and before the opening and closing ul tags, respectively; and create a four-line functions.php. Other than uploading and activating, that’s all that I had to do. And the readme guided me through all of that.
Oh, one thing about the readme: view it in Word or something equivalent. It’s damn near unreadable in Notepad. (Personally, I think that’s stupid; but c’est la vie.)
Also Geof, I renamed my theme folder to bluehorizon and added the Kubrick theme from the 2.0.2 package under the default folder. Just for you.
April 1st, 2006 at 11:55