[theme-reviewers] Updating Custom Backgrounds and Custom Headers for WordPress 3.4

[Chip Bennett]

The implementation is essentially equivalent, although you may lose some of
the power of the new implementation if you maintain backward compatibility.

That said: I have seen some initial 3.4 implementations that use
function_exists( 'wp_get_theme' ) to determine version, since
wp_get_theme() was added in 3.4.

By the way, the Theme Review guidelines only allow backward compatibility
with one (recommended) or two (optionally) major versions of WordPress.
That means that, once 3.4 is released, only backward compatibility to 3.3
(recommended) or 3.2 (optionally) will be permitted for repository-hosted
Themes.

Chip

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, David Law <
wp-hackers at google-adsense-templates.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 10:00:04 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Just posted to the make.themes site:
> >
> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/2012/04/06/updating-custom-backgrounds-and-custom-headers-for-wordpress-3-4/
> >
> >Feel free to discuss and/or ask questions, either on the post or here in
> >the mail list.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Chip
>
>
> Has anyone got the new Custom Headers code working on WordPress 3.4
> beta and WordPress 3.3 as well? Got it working in 3.4 using Chip's
> tutorial and
> http://sabreuse.com/flexible-headers-in-wordpress-3-4-themes/
>
> I can see the new code won't be compatible with 3.3, but still need to
> make themes backwards compatible to some degree (I try for 3.*
> compatible).
>
> Updating a theme in advance of WordPress 3.4 and looking for a good
> way to make it backwards compatible.
>
> custom-background was easy, since it's a small amount of code so added
> conditional code.
>
> if ($wp_version >= '3.4') {
> add_theme_support( 'custom-background', array(
>        'default-color' => '',
> ) );
> #add_theme_support('custom-background');
> }else{
> add_custom_background();
> }
>
> Can do the same for Custom Headers, but think it will be messy. Anyone
> got a 'good' solution up and running?
>
> David
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