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<DIV>Make no mistake, if I were able to have updated the theme itself and fixed
bugs and kept it code compliant with core it would have been far better for the
users and myself. Along with having the plugin/comic easel as
something to migrate to when the users were ready, not being forced into
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<DIV>As it stands, I lost more money then I made in this last year helping
people fix their sites, regardless of how many video’s, tutorials and tools I
made to help them migrate.</DIV>
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<DIV>...and it still goes on and on; that and WordPress doesn’t have all
of the functionality available for common things to co-sync custom post types as
regular post types, so functionality was lost between theme and
plugin. </DIV>
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<DIV>Yeah, .. I was and always am in favor for the ‘anything new needs to adhere
to the requirements’ – but if it’s a theme that’s been in circulation for a
number of years; don’t force it – let it work it’s way up.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=otto@ottodestruct.com
href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">Otto</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:03 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] How to request "grandfathered"
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<DIV dir=ltr>I thought you migrated people to the plugin for that one. The
plugin route is a much better experience for your case, I think.
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<DIV class=gmail_extra>Regardless, migration takes time. 3.9 is coming out in 6
weeks, so that's realistically not enough time for theme authors to migrate
users to a better way. 4.0 in August or 4.1 in December might be a better
timeframe to start that level of enforcement. Require authors to start building
in plugin-migration, sort of thing. Maybe provide a plugin that will handle the
case for them if necessary, and code to add to a theme that eases that
migration. </DIV>
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<DIV>-Otto</DIV><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
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<DIV>^ yay otto. Little too late in my case with ComicPress, but
yay for this now.</DIV>
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