Title: “Module” Plugin for WordPress?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “Module” Plugin for WordPress?

 *  [jmd4eva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmd4eva/)
 * (@jmd4eva)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/)
 * I was thinking that it’s getting a bit of a pain to download my theme, update/
   put something in the sidebar (e.g a new plugin code, or a rss feed of somesort,
   or just a picture or w/e), upload it, etc.
 * Could someone build a plugin that lets people add stuff to the sidebar?
 * Jaymz

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 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-299113)
 * It’s really _that_ hard to open up your sidebar and drop in a function? I mean
   how often are you doing it?
 *  [dss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dss/)
 * (@dss)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-299118)
 * Why not set the sidebar.php to writeable, and then in wp-admin/presentation choose
   the sidebar.php and add or remove whatever you like?
 * It’s built in, why make a plugin?
 *  [McShelby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcshelby/)
 * (@mcshelby)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-299122)
 * How should such a plugin work? Because every theme can implement its sidebar 
   different, which HTML tags should the plugin use to build up a document structure?
   That won’t work for a lot of us.
 *  [Andy Beard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andybeard/)
 * (@andybeard)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-299382)
 * I can see some quite good reasons for it
 * Sometimes you switch a theme a fair bit until you settle on one you really like,
   and often people have advertising tiles etc they would like appearing.
 * There is as much reason for this as say the excellent subscribe_me plugin.
 * Sure you can do it with includes each time with the theme editor, but it can 
   be a pain remembering everything.
 * I will have a chat with my programmers about it
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-299387)
 * There is one theme out there that integrates specific plugins and code to have
   a more module-oriented functionality. It’s been discussed here a lot — it wouldn’t
   be that hard to come up with a common way of ‘describing’ how elements should
   be encapsulated in output. It would however make output a bit more messy for 
   plugin writers…
 *  Thread Starter [jmd4eva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmd4eva/)
 * (@jmd4eva)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/module-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-299490)
 * Well…
 * Can you consider this ‘the original’ widgets thread?

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