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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: suprsidr[/u][p]So today I had a chance to play around w/ dynamic blocks for 2.0b1

I've got to say, and I'm sorry, but what a horrible, horrible implementation.

I know my way around geeklog and its APIs very well, and you've got me confused - this is just plain bad decision making.

Users wanted a way to better control blocks, not this.
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[*] a plugin author can create a dynamic block and force its use simply by not supplying config options for it.
[*] no options to enable/disable dynamic blocks in the block editor. this is going to have new users plain confused.
[*] if a plugin author does supply conf options for it, the options are not part of the block editor, but in a whole separate place and not all dynamic block configs are even grouped together.
[*] these blocks are tied to topics?  huh?  so how do I decide what blocks show on my plugin pages? - oh right, back to configuration.
[*] there is more
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Here are my suggestions:
when a user creates a story, staticpage, poll or whatever, they choose from a list of available blocks(dynamic or regular) for the right and left or none at all.
Maybe make it a fun drag/drop, sortable widget - we have jQuery.
Save the story, staticpage, poll.. with the array of block ids(right and left) - Done!
This is the level of control users want from blocks.

-s
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