If the current version is 3.4, how can one provide backward compatibility *to* 3.4?<div><br></div><div>I don't get how that makes any sense at all.</div><div><br></div><div>If the current version is 3.4, then backward compatibility to one version would be version 3.3, and backward compatibility to two versions would be version 3.2.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In fact, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#WordPress">the current guidelines even explicitly indicate the versions for which backward compatibility is allowed</a>:</div><div><br></div><div>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Backward compatibility:</span><ul style="text-align:left;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:22px;margin-left:16px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;list-style-type:square;list-style-position:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<li style="text-align:left!important;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Themes <b>must</b> not provide backward compatibility for out-of-date WordPress versions, including using <tt>function_exists()</tt>conditional wrappers for current WordPress functions.<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:22px;margin-left:16px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;list-style-type:square;list-style-position:initial">
<li style="text-align:left!important;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Themes <b>must not</b> support backward compatibility for more than two major WordPress versions (currently: <b>WordPress 3.2</b>)</li>
<li style="text-align:left!important;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Themes <b>should not</b> support backward compatibility for more than one major WordPress version (currently: <b>WordPress 3.3</b>)</li>
</ul></li></ul></div><div>I'm not sure how we could make it any more clear?</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Current version is 3.4. One major version prior would be 3.3. Two major<br>
> versions prior would be 3.2.<br>
><br>
> Backward compatibility to 3.2 is still allowed, under the current<br>
> guidelines.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>That's not what I'm reading.<br>
<br>
3.4 and 3.3 are two major versions.<br>
<br>
3.4 and 3.3 and 3.2 would be three major versions.<br>
<br>
I'm not changing theme check or the uploader until you make the<br>
guidelines perfectly clear, because I've been operating with this<br>
understanding ever since that guideline was created.<br>
<br>
As of right now, 3.2 compatibility is a no-go as far as I'm concerned.<br>
If you want to change that, fine, but I consider that to be changing<br>
the current guidelines to new guidelines and will treat it as such.<br>
<br>
In short, this is not a bug, this is intentional behavior. I wrote it<br>
that way on purpose because that is what the guidelines actually state<br>
as I read them.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
-Otto<br>
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