[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12163: Setup default widgets when installing

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#12163: Setup default widgets when installing
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 Reporter:  ryan          |       Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.0   
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  2.9.1 
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:        
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Comment(by azaozz):

 The patch looks good, cleaned it a bit. Was thinking we could use
 `add_option()` so if somebody is re-running the install it wouldn't
 overwrite already defined widgets, but perhaps the expected behavior would
 be to overwrite them.

 We need to add support for default widgets to `register_sidebar` so theme
 authors can pre-register widgets there when the sidebar is empty instead
 of hard-coding them in the theme. That has to happen on the next page load
 after a theme is activated.

 Was thinking to drop most of the back-compat code in the widgets API and
 improve `register_sidebar` (there are several tickets about it) but
 perhaps that's better left for 3.1.

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