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A Theme With 70 Different Widget Spots

I stumbled across this theme the other day called Tachyon by RocketTheme and noticed that is has 70 widget positions. That is insane. I can’t imagine how much of a burden or a nightmare it would be to manage something like that from the back-end of WordPress as just having 15 or so widgets can become cumbersome. This link will show you all of the various widget spots complete with there variations. Check out the following image which shows a blueprint of where all of the widget spots are located.

Tachyon Widget Spots

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18 responses to “A Theme With 70 Different Widget Spots”

  1. Using that many widgets is insane… Unless you have a front-end editor. Not sure if they have that.

    Alternatively, if they have customized the widget screen to have a friendlier display like Stephanie Leary once did, then it can work.

    Although, I think having this many queries on the homepage will certainly affect the load time. But with proper caching, it can be controlled.

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  10. The areas with vertically stacked section is especially ridiculous. Just put *more widgets* in the one widget area.

    DUH.

    If this was to get around users not knowing you can put more than one widget in a widget area, then the theme shop that did this is failing to provide some basic education.

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  15. I see what they have done, but do you really need to design each widget area with different CSS styling?

    Wouldn’t it be better to create options to change the styling of each widget area rather than adding so many widget areas, and styling each one individually? OR creating a stylesheet that you uncomment certain areas depending on the widget styling you preferred?

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  16. I needed something like this a while back when someone wanted to have many rss feeds on front page showing all new stuff for their 30-40 sites, I ended up using Feed Me Semore (i think it is spelled right).
    For me way to complicated!

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  18. Wow, can someone say, “Adsense Optimized”, lol..this would be an advertisers dream! But seriously, I can’t even think of 70 plugins I like for wordpress, let alone 70 widget areas….but they are drumming up talk about their company, so I guess it’s working…

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