Wordpress Default Theme
The idea resurfaces for a change in default theme, poor (old) Kubrick is seen as tired, also the issue of themes with added function (known by some as functionality).
Well logic and display are supposed to be separated in any framework worthy of the name - think also of XHTML, and the separation of content and style - the pure response is to say that widgets should contain no programmming, plugins should be theme-independent.
When producing themes myself, I do favour putting a lot of the logic into the functions.php of the theme, there’s very little value in a global scope (across themes) plugin for most purposes. But that’s mainly because it’s a lot quicker to write it all in straight php, and I prefer an easy life
Widgetised main content
The most interesting argument involves whether output of post/page main content itself should be turned into a widget - it would require a big jump in the programming, and could take over a lot of the is_home() is_page() etc. conditionals - a good idea, but perhaps straying into ‘giving the user too many buttons’ syndrome - although it is their WordPress, they’re allowed to break it if they want.
If you do get tired of the “WP2.x is out and it’s sooooo kewl…” crowd, subversion here - maybe not my place to say it, but do rather wish you hadn’t fixed on that username…
New default theme - any ideas?
