Twenty Fourteen: widgetize the Post Format front page so other widgets can go there, and Post Format widgets can be used in other sidebars

[paolal]

Instead of hardcoding the home sidebar to show two posts for each non standard format in a fixed order, widgetize it and create a widget to show any number of any post format with a custom title.

In addition to more control on the homepage, this widget would also allow the sidebar on other pages to remain identical.

[obenland]

Yes, I was working on a widget, modeled a bit after Twenty Eleven's Ephemera Widget. Patch coming shortly.

[obenland]

There are still some decisions to be made:

• Do we keep the sidebar on the front page exclusive to formatted posts?
  • If we do, what order should the widgets have?
• Do we offer an option to change the amount of posts within the ephemera widget?

[lancewillett]

Replying to obenland:

• Do we keep the sidebar on the front page exclusive to formatted posts?

I don't think so. Allow any widget to be added there.
Or, it could be that if you add any other widget, they disappear.

• If we do, what order should the widgets have?

Let them be re-ordered?

• Do we offer an option to change the amount of posts within the ephemera widget?

Yes, that'd be a nice addition.

[obenland]

Updated patch.

[lancewillett]

Patch is looking good, I did make one change, adding esc_attr() on lines 237 and 238 of inc/widgets.php for outputting attributes.

[lancewillett]

PHP warning when adding the Ephemera widget to a sidebar: Notice: Undefined index: format in wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/inc/widgets.php on line 232

[lancewillett]

In 25090:

Twenty Fourteen: widgetize the Post Format front page so other widgets can be used there, and the special Post Format content can be used in other widget areas. Props obenland, see #25028.

[lancewillett]

Closing, open new issues in new tickets.

[lancewillett]

In 25814:

Twenty Fourteen: cleanup, props iamtakashi. Fixes #25613.

• With the ephemera widget in place, content-recent-formatted-post.php is unused, see #25028.

• We're no longe filtering formatted posts from the main query, see #25330.
  • Fix a typo.