<p dir="ltr">Yes. By design. Teach them how to use a child theme, and/or how to write a callback for wp_head/wp_footer.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2014 12:20 PM, "Bruce Wampler" <<a href="mailto:weavertheme@gmail.com">weavertheme@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>So the answer on getting a grandfathered exception is to discuss it here?<br><br></div>My follow up explains the problem - users with JavaScripts in the header/footer would have them stripped from previous settings by changing the Settings API filter.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">For which *specific* guideline (s) do you want a grandfather exception?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mar 6, 2014 11:38 AM, "Bruce Wampler" <<a href="mailto:weavertheme@gmail.com" target="_blank">weavertheme@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>After reviewing the impacts on my themes of the proposed 3.9 theme guidelines, I've reached the conclusion that conforming to one particular new requirement will seriously impact my thousands of existing users - many many users would have their options simply disappear, thus breaking their sites. Because of the way the Settings API work, this particular option would simply be erased.<br>
<br></div><div>I was working on complying when I discovered this serious problem. There is no solution I can figure out to avoid existing users losing settings upon update.<br></div><div><br>How do I go about requesting getting a permanent "grandfathered" exemption to one of the new guidelines for my existing themes?<br>
<br></div>Bruce Wampler<br></div>
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