[theme-reviewers] THEME: Auto Show - 1.0.6

[Chip Bennett]

You've got it exactly *backwards*.

We *don't* want Themes arbitrarily supporting backwards-compatibility.

That is, Widgets have been around for years. Themes don't need to add
"function_exists()" conditionals around calls to functions such as
"register_sidebar()" and "dynamic_sidebar()".

My personal stance is that arbitrary backwards-compatibility must be limited
to one prior major version of WordPress.

(Anything beyond that, and the backwards-compatibility must be thorough and
complete, rather than arbitrary. And even then, there is a question of
whether such Themes should be maintained in the repository, or made
available separately for whatever niche of users still need them.)

Chip

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > This Theme also needs to address appropriate backwards compatibility
> (e.g.
> > function_exists() calls around dynamic_sidebar(), etc.).
>
> This is something I've been pondering -- why are we still enforcing
> back-compat for these sorts of things?
>
> Given the stated release goals/philosophy for core WordPress, why
> should theme devs be forced to support anything other than a single
> previous major dot rev? And how long has dynamic_sidebar() been in
> place?  (Codex says 2.2 -- i.e., almost 4 years ago)
>
> So my question remains: why should a theme fail for neglecting this
> check? Are folks still running WP 2.1 out there? Are they INSANE? And
> is it not equally insane/enabling to allow them to continue to do so?
>
> --
> -Doug
> @zamoose
> http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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