[wp-hackers] Custom widget layout on a per-page basis

[John Ellmore]

Aaron - depending on how dynamic your modules are, using shortcodes may be
an easier approach. The downside is that they do not have a GUI to edit
them like widgets do (unless you write a fancy GUI interface in javascript).

John



On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Rodolfo Buaiz <brasofilo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Aaron, I recently stumbled upon this that may be of interest:
>
> http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/discussion/1660/buckets-widgets-alternative
>
> AdvancedCustomFields alone or with premium add-ons or in conjuction with
> another plugin (e.g.: BucketsWidgets) could be of help in the scenario that
> you describe.
>
> cheers,
> Rodolfo
>
> On Sunday, July 15, 2012, wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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