[theme-reviewers] List of Version-Specific Features Supported by Themes

[Chip Bennett]

Taking a crack at building a list, so that I can update the Codex page. Please 
feel free to add to or revise this list!

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3.0 ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0 )
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New Features

 - Navigation Menus ( wp_nav_menu() )
 - Custom Header/Background Images
 - Visual Editor CSS ( add_editor_style() )
 - Login Form ( wp_login_form() )
 - New template files ( front-page.php, taxonomy.php )
 - Comment Form ( comment_form() )

Deprecated Functions

 - automatic_feed_links(): use add_theme_support('automatic-feed-links')
 -  get_bloginfo('text_direction'): use is_rtl()
 - get_alloptions()
 - get_profile(): use get_the_author_meta()
 - trackback_rdf()
 - add_option_update_handler(): use register_setting()
 - remove_option_update_handler(): use unregister_setting()
 - clean_url(): use esc_url() and esc_url_raw()
 - is_term(): use term_exists()
 - is_taxonomy(): use taxonomy_exists()


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2.9 (http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.9)
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New Features

 - Widget Sidebar Descriptions
 - Post Thumbnails ( add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); 
the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ) )
 - Comment metadata
 - Excerpt filters (excerpt_length, excerpt_more)

Deprecated Functions

 - 

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2.8 (http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8)
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New Features

 - the_widget()

Deprecated Functions

 - 

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2.7 ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.7 )
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New Features

 - Widgets
 - Comment Threading/Paging ( wp_list_comments() )

Deprecated Functions

 - 


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2.6 ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.6 )
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(Do we need to go back this far? I didn't find anything major regarding 
themes.)


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This list is very much incomplete. But, let me know if I'm on the right track, 
and I'll start working on the Codex page.

-- 
Chip Bennett
chip at chipbennett.net
www.chipbennett.net

On Saturday 19 June 2010 12:04:54 am Joseph Scott wrote:
> The problem I have with listing just the version is that it isn't
> granular enough.  If a theme is marked as supporting WP3.0 does it
> support custom menus, custom backgrounds/colors, custom headers,
> custom post types, or custom taxonomies?  To say a theme supports
> WP3.0 doesn't really mean anything.  To say that a theme supports
> custom menus means much more.
> 
> I agree with Chips suggestions.  I don't think that waiting until July
> before we really push all new themes to support custom menus is a
> problem.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Dave Grossman <dave at 943productions.com> 
wrote:
> > Since there will be a lot of people running previous versions of WP (I
> > just upgraded a new client from 2.8.4), why not provide some indication
> > what version of WP this is tested with? That way as the theme repository
> > ages, the data still has relevance.
> > I find the WP version information for plugins invaluable.
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