[theme-reviewers] How to request "grandfathered" exception to WP 3.9 Theme guidelines?

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

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 it.

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.

...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.   

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.

From: Otto 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:03 AM
To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers. 
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] How to request "grandfathered" exception to WP 3.9 Theme guidelines?

I thought you migrated people to the plugin for that one. The plugin route is a much better experience for your case, I think. 

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. 

-Otto



On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net> wrote:

  ^ yay otto.   Little too late in my case with ComicPress, but yay for this now.



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