• A new term to describe widgets?

    Ptah Dunbar proposes a get_widget() function. Similar to get_sidebar(), but it’s there to show that widgets don’t necessarily have to show up on a sidebar area. What do you think? [Link]

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    Posted February 25, 2009

5 comments

  1. James Coletti said:

    One step closer to WordPress as a CMS. I think it would be a very useful feature.

    on February 25, 2009 at 10:49 pm Reply

  2. Gustaf Jarnling (gjarnling) said:

    Very useful. Would streamline the code more. As of now one sometimes call the widget via the sidebar and sometimes through the code; i.e. using a widget in the footer. This is a great suggestion!

    on February 26, 2009 at 12:31 am Reply

  3. Dean Saliba said:

    And some people say WordPress is rather limited!

    I think this is a great suggestion and should sped up the loading the of the page.

    on February 26, 2009 at 8:12 am Reply

  4. Craig said:

    That would be a great addition to the code base.

    on February 26, 2009 at 1:20 pm Reply

  5. Haris said:

    I’m 100% up for the change. Semantic value to the code always make me happy. :)

    @Dean, how would it speed up the loading of the page? If the change happens, wordpress will RENAME the function get_sidebar() to get_widget() unless they make changes to the code to improve the perfomance of the wdgets.

    on March 21, 2009 at 7:02 pm Reply


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