Perhaps we should indicate an allowable age of backward-compatibility support? What's the right answer here?<div><br></div><div>1) Themes must support current major WP version only (e.g. 3.0, not 2.9.x)</div><div>2) Themes may support a certain number of previous major WP versions (e.g. for 3.0, Themes may provide backward-compatibility for 2.9.x, or 2.8.x)</div>
<div>3) Themes may provide backward-compatibility as old as the Developer wishes to support</div><div><br></div><div>I think One might be a bit restrictive, and difficult to enforce (WP 3.0 adoption is at just over 49%, 4 months after release), but certainly easiest on the Review Team. I think Three would be way too difficult to manage, and would end up causing nightmares for the automated checks (Theme Check and the Uploader Script), due to backward-compatibility support for deprecated functions. So, it would seem to me that Two is the most viable option.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The question is: how far back?</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Gene Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emhr@submersible.me">emhr@submersible.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium">A quick draft item has been added to the Theme Review ...<br>
<br><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Site_Information" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Site_Information</a></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Looks good. I think it would be a service to theme developers to state that bloginfo('url') is a wrapper for home('url') that provides backward compatibility for versions < 3.0 Although an opposing argument might view this as enabling people to hold out on upgrading WP.<div>
<br></div><div>@Nacin - When you review <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1596" target="_blank">Simply Works Core 1.3.3</a> , I'd appreciate your going-over my <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1566" target="_blank"></a>previous review's <a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1566" target="_blank">suggestions</a>.</div>
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