When a user activates a theme, they have an expectation of seeing their photos, theirs shop, their contributors and all of their content with a new style or twist. Themes provide this ability to showcase user content in different ways. How a theme gets that content is what we look for. When there is no content a theme should not show anything. This has been an issue in the past and this will hopefully add more information to that. Sounds simple, right?
What is interesting and noteworthy, is that every theme is going to have different layouts and different sidebars (positions and even sidebar names). In any event, the user will still have a fair amount of work to redo their website by rebuilding widgets (or at least re-assign them) to the new theme’s sidebars.
I’ve had demo content added to a theme (ie: sidebar content) but I have found it was important that the user has a “one-click” method to disable all demo content from the customizer. Nothing worse than to have your pages with some “lorem ipsum” showing up and not knowing how to get rid of it….even worse if it was hard coded in (nasty).
