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

[Brian Layman]

> Why is a widgets table out of the question?
> I'm not agreeing with the push to treat widgets as a type of post.  They
aren't data -- they're structure.  In essence they're part of the theme if
nothing else.  > A very flexible part of the theme, but still -- part of the
theme.

Agreed.  A more appropriate  action would be to consider comments a post
type.  That would be a hard one to argue against especially because you
could even do things like promoting a comment to be a Post/top point in a
conversation. Not that I look forward to that expensive merge process..

-brian layman