[wp-hackers] Idea: Widgets as custom post types

[Justin Shreve]

I agree it's a good idea as well.

I know that links has it's own table but if we are using wp_posts as a way
to store this different data wouldn't it make sense to have them stored as a
post_type of 'link'? Some similar data is stored here as well.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Austin Matzko <austin at ilfilosofo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:07 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, each widget type has a an associated row in the wp_options
> table,
> > where all instances of itself are stored.
> >
> > Taking example from the nav menus in WP 3.0, why not store each widget in
> > the wp_posts table, with a post_type of 'widget' ?
>
> I think it's a good idea, and the post db structure fits many widgets
> too, since they often have titles and content.  And I hate how easily
> serialized data gets corrupted.
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