Widgets or not to Widgets

  • Harvey

    (@harvey)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    I have been using WordPress for quite some time now, and being the old stubborn guy that I am, I never got into the sidebar plugin widgets, and have continued to add my plugins manually by going into the template code.

    Am I really missing out on a lot? I especially worry now that we’re about to hit WP 2.3, that I may be missing out on some really useful and convenient things if I don’t change my ways.

    So what do you say? Has everyone switched to widget plugins? Am I the only hold-out?

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  • allyngibson

    (@allyngibson)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I held out on Widgets for a long, long time.

    What finally swayed me was people asking for a plug-in I’d written as a widget. Which meant I had to use widgets to learn how they worked so I could write the correct code.

    I generally like the Widget system.

    Some Widgets, however, are bears to work with as they don’t display well on certain themes. That’s the trade-off — simplicity of sidebar management, versus getting the sidebar items to look right.

    At the very least, I’d recommend playing around with widgets. 🙂

    darran

    (@darran)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    It all depends on how you render your site. Is it going to be very automated? Personally, I don’t see how widgets is going to help me because I don’t intend on changing my sidebar. If I do need to change it, I would just probably do it once by editing the code itself.

    But despite that, I do have widgets enabled. Just don’t think it would benefit me as much as it would benefit those who are frequently modifying and adding stuff to their sidebar.

    Thread Starter Harvey

    (@harvey)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t tinker with my sidebar much, so maybe widgets aren’t necessary for me quite yet. Thanks for the honest opinions!

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