WordPress Theme With Top Sidebar - Question About Widgets in It

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Hello,

I want to create top sidebar but only for one widget. In other words, only one plugin(widget) will be displayed properly in it. I will wrote about this in description of item and in documentation. Also Top Sidebar won’t be registered until user install plugin ( I think that this is possible ) .

Will theme get soft reject for that ? I’m trying to include only widget in script without sidebar but it’s too much of work and can generate many bugs.

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Any widget ready area must support all default widgets, you cannot have it support only one, this will result in soft-reject and even if it went through, detailing that it only supports one widget or not, customers will complain.

Use a theme option instead.

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There are two requirements:

  • The theme needs to be widget ready in all advertised locations ( so I can write that top sidebar is only for one widet and hide all other widgets )
  • All of WordPress’ default widgets should be styled/display properly in all widgetized areas

Which is more important ?

And next thing - it’s about newsletter widget. Of course I can create custom form_field but I can’t create custom mysql table … so or user will get not working newsletter form_field or I need to create what …

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Use theme option for that purpose. Create subscription form and style it and use shortcode or function there.

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Ok but where save emails from that form if I can’t create new table in database ? And because I can’t create table, how to set sending newsletter for subscribers ?

Many plugins do it … but they are created as widgets.