[wp-hackers] wp-hackers Digest, Vol 90, Issue 35

[Taras Mankovski]

Hello Aaron,

You might want to take a look Visual Composer 
<http://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-for-wordpress/242431>, which 
allows you to build pages visually and reuse widgets, or Xwidgets 
<http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xwidgets/>, which allows you to 
have sidebars on per page bases.

Taras
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> 1. Custom widget layout on a per-page basis (aaron at commandmedia.net)
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> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:33:35 +1000
> From: <aaron at commandmedia.net>
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Custom widget layout on a per-page basis
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> Hi all,
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>
>
> I've only been a member of the mailing list for about a week, so I 
> apologize
> if I'm breaking any rules of etiquette or if this is off-topic. Lots of
> interesting reads going through here. I'm working on a project that 
> poses an
> interesting design challenge and wanted to bounce it off some fellow 
> hackers
> to see if anyone might come up with a better approach than I have.
>
>
>
> We are building a multi-page site of about 100 pages where each page has a
> modular design. So there might be 8 pages under category one, and each 
> page
> is comprised of a number of modules in a simple two-column layout. The 
> pages
> in category two use the same modules, but they might be arranged
> differently, there might be 9 or 10 pages instead of 8, etc.
>
>
>
> This type of scenario seems well-adapted to the widget functionality in
> Wordpress where we can define a reusable chunk of UI that can be placed
> anywhere within a "sidebar" region. I can define a custom post type, and
> upon the creation of a new page, use register_sidebars() to create the
> layout regions for that page. We can then drag and drop our widgets into
> each region as we please.
>
>
>
> The problem with this is that with a 100+ page site, the "sidebars" we
> register will number in the hundreds. So my questions are
>
>
>
> 1) Are there any performance or scalability concerns we should be aware
> of on a site with hundreds of widget-containing "sidebars?"
>
> 2) The UI at wp-admin/widgets.php is not up to the task of handling
> hundreds of sidebars - any thoughts here about a good approach to 
> creating a
> better UI, could we re-use or subclass any part of that code, what 
> would be
> the best way to go about this? Is anyone familiar enough with that code to
> estimate how hard it would be to include it in a metabox for our post
> editor?
>
> 3) Perhaps there is a simpler or superior technique for enabling
> modular per-page layouts that I haven't thought of?
>
>
>
> In general, I'm just looking for ideas and thoughts around the best way to
> do this. Thanks!
>
>
>
> Aaron
>
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