Add function around widgets in functions.php

[karmatosed]

My suggestion is to wrap widgets in function to work better for child themes knowing when widgets are registered. It will also allow for ease of un registering.

Something along the lines of this....

function default_widgets_init() {

register_sidebar( array(
	'name'          => 'Sidebar',
	'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
	'after_widget'  => '</div>',
	'before_title'  => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
	'after_title'   => '</h3>'
) );

register_sidebar( array(
	'name' => __( 'First Footer Widget Area', 'buddypress' ),
	'id' => 'first-footer-widget-area',
	'description' => __( 'The first footer widget area', 'buddypress' ),
	'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',
	'after_widget' => '</li>',
	'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
	'after_title' => '</h3>',
) );

... other widgets

}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'default_widgets_init' );

[nacin]

Widgets should be registered on widgets_init anyway, so +1.

[DJPaul]

Yes, I'm working on this but it affects a few other things so I need to hit them all at one time

[djpaul]

(In [3496]) Refactor functions.php to use appropriate theme-loading actions.
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Key functions are now hookable.
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Props to the WordPress team and Twenty Ten for some of the phpDoc.
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