Putting forward a *no* backward compatibility requirement is a bit much; but, requiring submitted themes to support the current stable release version of WordPress (if not clearly written it will be added to the guidelines) is absolutely implied by inference of all the other guideline items.<br>
<br>See this section of the Theme Review page: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Version_Specific_Changes">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Version_Specific_Changes</a><br><br>So, essentially, there is no real need to have backward compatibility included with any theme submitted to the repository; and, if the upload "theme-check" trips up on one of these deprecated functions, even if wrapped in some sort of conditional statement; and, throws out errors (and potentially "Fail" a submission), that will be at the Theme authors hands to correct.<br>
<br><br>Cais.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Sayontan Sinha <<a href="mailto:sayontan@gmail.com">sayontan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Otto,<br>
> The reason I pointed this one out is because this function is invoked in a<br>
> !function_exists() condition.<br>
<br>
</div>Oh no, I fully understand. All I'm saying is ya'll work out what you<br>
want it to do, then I'll make it do that. Easy.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
-Otto<br>
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