Yea! Imagine plugins marketplace within Admin side of the Forem, and one of that marketplace category is "Sidebar widgets" where you, as an admin, can turn on/off certain widgets. Admin should be able to decide where exactly each widget should be displayed in the sidebar.
We've not wanted to jump into this because of technical debt of making some bad choices, but this is where we want to be.
At some point we need to rip the bandaid off and ween in to our plugin ecosystem. (If "plugin" is what we're calling it). @joshpuetz
had an astute point in a prior discussion about the best way to get this started is to extract existing functionality into a plugin.
My biggest concern is just ensuring performance, security and UX stay strong while the system is extensible.... Wordpress, Shopify, etc. haven't always checked all these boxes all the time.
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Yea! Imagine plugins marketplace within Admin side of the Forem, and one of that marketplace category is "Sidebar widgets" where you, as an admin, can turn on/off certain widgets. Admin should be able to decide where exactly each widget should be displayed in the sidebar.
Would the idea be to have a market place similar to the WordPress plugins where admins can add (or perhaps even purchase) plugins for their forem?
100%.
We've not wanted to jump into this because of technical debt of making some bad choices, but this is where we want to be.
At some point we need to rip the bandaid off and ween in to our plugin ecosystem. (If "plugin" is what we're calling it). @joshpuetz had an astute point in a prior discussion about the best way to get this started is to extract existing functionality into a plugin.
My biggest concern is just ensuring performance, security and UX stay strong while the system is extensible.... Wordpress, Shopify, etc. haven't always checked all these boxes all the time.