<div dir="ltr"><div><div>A new tag perhaps for all these "incompatible under new rules" themes like "Advanced" or "use at own risk" or similar name? <br><br></div>Put all these themes in that tag, exclude them from tag filter searches, Recently updated, new themes, popular lists on <a href="http://wordpress.org/themes/">wordpress.org/themes/</a> ( so only experienced users and current users can find them )<br>
Themes under this tag to have a big bold disclosure saying they are meant only for experienced users and maybe be locked in or will have trouble migrating etc.<br><br>That way their current user base who are happily using the existing functionality can keep getting updates and no new user of WordPress will be inconvenienced when they switch from these advanced themes and loose all their data. If any new theme wants to add plugin functions, they can add this new tag and they can be used by experienced users. <br>
<br></div><div>Support responsibility for these themes to be on the theme authors and they should actively provide support, so current support warriors won't be burdened?<br></div><div><br></div><div>We can have the best of both worlds this way, Directory can host advanced themes too and new users won't complain WordPress is hard to use.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks! .. sadly no, it's not that simple; there are still roughly 25k'ish users out there (that can be counted with services like Comic Rocket+backlinks+etc) that still haven't migrated to Comic Easel - which only counts to a modest (/grin) 150ish sites using it right now.<br>
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It's rather unfortunate that I have to point people to the github to download the updated ComicPress that keeps it compatible with the recent releases of WordPress. - even then, I have seen some version 1.6's out there of ComicPress running wordpress 2.0 something's heh.<br>
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)<br>
<<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My ComicPress theme the same way, it's completely embedded with options that<br>
are specific to the code required to run it, while there's an addon<br>
available in plugin that plugin will only work for the theme. It's useless<br>
otherwise.<br>
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Is that still around? I thought you'd ported most users over to Comic Easel.<br>
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Comic Easel is a better choice all around, I'd say. That's more of a<br>
doing-it-right approach.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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