Widgets or not to Widgets

  • 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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  • 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. ??

    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)

    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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