[theme-reviewers] List of Version-Specific Features Supported by Themes

[Joseph Scott]

I think this is definitely on the right track.  As for how far to go
back.  At most I'd go to 2.8, anything beyond that and we'll be
dragging things along for too long.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> Taking a crack at building a list, so that I can update the Codex page. Please
> feel free to add to or revise this list!
>
> *******************************************************************
> 3.0 ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0 )
> *******************************************************************
>
> New Features
>
>  - Navigation Menus ( wp_nav_menu() )
>  - Custom Header/Background Images
>  - Visual Editor CSS ( add_editor_style() )
>  - Login Form ( wp_login_form() )
>  - New template files ( front-page.php, taxonomy.php )
>  - Comment Form ( comment_form() )
>
> Deprecated Functions
>
>  - automatic_feed_links(): use add_theme_support('automatic-feed-links')
>  -  get_bloginfo('text_direction'): use is_rtl()
>  - get_alloptions()
>  - get_profile(): use get_the_author_meta()
>  - trackback_rdf()
>  - add_option_update_handler(): use register_setting()
>  - remove_option_update_handler(): use unregister_setting()
>  - clean_url(): use esc_url() and esc_url_raw()
>  - is_term(): use term_exists()
>  - is_taxonomy(): use taxonomy_exists()
>
>
> *******************************************************************
> 2.9 (http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9)
> *******************************************************************
>
> New Features
>
>  - Widget Sidebar Descriptions
>  - Post Thumbnails ( add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
> the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ) )
>  - Comment metadata
>  - Excerpt filters (excerpt_length, excerpt_more)
>
> Deprecated Functions
>
>  -
>
> *******************************************************************
> 2.8 (http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8)
> *******************************************************************
>
> New Features
>
>  - the_widget()
>
> Deprecated Functions
>
>  -
>
> *******************************************************************
> 2.7 ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.7 )
> *******************************************************************
>
> New Features
>
>  - Widgets
>  - Comment Threading/Paging ( wp_list_comments() )
>
> Deprecated Functions
>
>  -
>
>
> *******************************************************************
> 2.6 ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.6 )
> *******************************************************************
> (Do we need to go back this far? I didn't find anything major regarding
> themes.)
>
>
> *******************************************************************
>
> This list is very much incomplete. But, let me know if I'm on the right track,
> and I'll start working on the Codex page.



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Joseph Scott
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