I just got done adding an “include plugin.php” to the constructor so it would work on the frontend and realized that the links would do a non-admin absolutely no good. Thanks for the speedy reply.

It works fine from an admin hook but I also get the ‘Call to undefined function get_plugins()’ when attaching it to a frontend hook (wp_head, after_theme_setup, etc.).

This:

register_sidebar( array(
       'name' => __( 'Main Sidebar', 'twentyeleven' ),
       'id' => 'sidebar-1',
       'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
       'after_widget' => "</aside>",
       'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
       'after_title' => '</h3>',
) );

is clearer and easier to understand than this equivalent:

cwp::register_sidebar('Main Sidebar', 'sidebar-1');

If I have to go look at the function to see what the parameters correspond to, then it’s already not self-documenting.

Furthermore, your code for the class-based static register_sidebar function has an error in it. I18N based translation will not work with that function because the string won’t get marked for translation in the PO/POT files, and variable based text-domains are incorrect. So the strings you used in your theme are now untranslatable. See Mark’s post on the topic for more info on text-domains.