<div dir="ltr"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra">Breaking 10s of thousands of sites is exactly my point.<br><br>What
kind of message is WordPress delivering to all these end users (and
they are the ultimate customer - please remember that) if theme is
updated, and all of a sudden, the site is broken? Seriously, is that the
experience you want to promote? Really? Who is willing to volunteer to
explain to my thousands of users that their site no longer works because
of a WordPress requirement?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">"Even
if a site will only be broken until a user installs a plugin" does not
even begin to cover the real world usage environment. How many sites use
automatic updating (e.g. InfiniteWP)? A LOT. How many sites were
developed by a professional, and then turned over to the end user with
instructions to always update your WordPress, themes, and plugins?
Again, A LOT. It is not as simple as installing a plugin for many many users.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Either that, or you leave them with a theme that is not getting any updates.<br>
<br></div>If
blocking the ability to update a theme until it fully meets current
standards is now the new official policy (and it seems pretty clear to
me from Chip's comments that this is true), then requiring this on such
sort notice also seems a bit abrupt. And this policy should now be
applied to every theme submitted for updates - they should all be
re-reviewed that they meet current guidelines.<br><br></div><div>Or let us do it right - I know in the case of my theme that updating properly to remove "plugin territory" features will take several months to do correctly. Interviewing current users to find out the least painful update path. Implementing the plugin so that it is 100% compatible. Beta testing. Limited release. I would find it clearly immoral to release such a drastically changed version of my theme without doing it right. In the mean time, I need to release occasional bug updates.<br>
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Greg Priday <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@siteorigin.com" target="_blank">greg@siteorigin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">From a user's perspective, what do you all feel would be the best way to update a theme that has "plugin domain" functionality?<div><br></div><div>The best strategy I've thought of is to just include a nag to install the "advanced features" plugin. It just feels risky pushing an update that you know will break 10s of thousands of sites - even if a site will only be broken until a user installs the plugin.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Has anyone thought of a better strategy?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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