[wp-hackers] 2.1 Ongoing Work

[Computer Guru]

Technically - yes.
Realistically - no.

You can use both by turning on widgets then installing a widget that lets you use traditional sidebar functions:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/82536

His site is down (just my luck, happens every time I post a URL), but if you need it I can email it your way.

Computer Guru
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Craig
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:12 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] 2.1 Ongoing Work
> 
> On 10/19/06, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 19, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Ryan Boren wrote:
> >
> > I like the idea of bundling widgets.  I was doing a project for a
> > company, sticking their widget in the WP sidebar... was trying to
> > sell them on making it a widget, but they weren't happy with the
> > penetration of the widgets plugin (so we ended up using the less
> > versatile wp_meta hook).  It definitely fills a gap.  Do we do it as
> > a bundled plugin or do we make it core?
> 
> 
> Exposing my complete-lack-of-technical-knowlege-fu, but one thing that
> frustrates me about widgets is the all or nothingness of them. As I
> understand it, a sidebar may contain widgets but that precludes other
> sidebar goodies, no? In other words, I can have widgets, or sidebar
> functions that call non-widget stuff, but not both.
> Am I missing something here? I guess I don't truly understand what
> widgets
> are, in terms of how they function and interact with my site or site's
> theme.
> 
> Craig.
> Nuclear Moose.
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