Re: Blocks or widgets (or something)
Reply #2 –
I think its a good idea. I was thinking about this a bit when the team page request came up, thats kind of a block in a way and something the portal or portal-like think could do.
Re: Blocks or widgets (or something)
Reply #3 –
Separating the block codes for SimplePortal has been in my list of things to do for years, but I never got around to doing it. I really like what you did with it there. We also wanted to separate the markup and the idea was to allow admins to define custom templates for the blocks they add.
I'm not sure what kind of blocks you want to include in core but having generic functions for loading such data would be very useful. I relied on functions from SSI.php as much as I could in SimplePortal and that made maintaining those blocks a lot easy.
Re: Blocks or widgets (or something)
Reply #5 –
Another random thought on that one: two already existing spots that may benefit from this are the info center and the statistics page.
In both cases, each "block" can become a stand alone widget with a way to decide what should be active and what not.
Re: Blocks or widgets (or something)
Reply #11 –
To be fair, it's a little overly complicated for SSI, though, having a structure that can be shared with something else to me is worth the little more complexity.
Re: Blocks or widgets (or something)
Reply #12 –
Of course my will to update the portal again is weak !