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

[Justin Shreve]

Mike brings up a good point on behalf of Matt. Tagging links and some of the
extra stuff as a bonus would be cool and easy to do if they were stored in
the posts table. This is something we should look into on top of the
widgets.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Charles Frees-Melvin <charles at cefm.ca>wrote:

> OMG, this would make the database structure much more simple and efficiant.
> I really like this
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 2010-03-02, at 16:32, Austin Matzko <austin at ilfilosofo.com> wrote:
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>  On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:28 PM,  <michael at mfields.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If the widget needed to store data outside of the columns
>>> that the posts table supplies, it would most likely just end up
>>> serializing these custom values and storing them in postmeta.
>>>
>>
>> Why not separate postmeta entries?
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