Future Theme

  • Resolved Andrew Bondar

    (@kronos1705)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    Hello, Anders Norén!

    For many years I have been using Baskerville as my blog theme, and I am infinitely grateful to you for your work, for keeping the topic up to date and tips on how to customize it, etc.

    In the context of Eksell release and talks about “Full Site Editing”, I would like to ask: will there be a basic update of previously created themes, including Baskerville? (We are not talking about “adapting Baskerville for Full Site Editing”, because I understand that it is easier and more expedient to develop a new theme than to reshape the old one.)

    It is the correction (possible in the future) of errors related to the obsolescence of some functions in the kernel, for example, that interests.

    The reason for my question is simple: I’m happy with Baskerville, support for both the block editor and the classic one, and the only thing that worries is whether it will break in the future. ??

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  • Theme Author Anders Norén

    (@anlino)

    Hi @kronos1705,

    I’m glad you like it!

    The answer is yes – I will keep my older themes up to date with future versions of WordPress, as long as it is possible to keep them updated without converting them entirely to Full Site Editing themes.

    My belief (which is pure speculation) is that eventually, years from now, the WordPress theme directory will require all themes to be Full Site Editing themes with block based template files, and that legacy themes with PHP based template files will be retired. When (if) that time comes, I will likely retire my old themes as well.

    But as long as they are still in the theme directory, I plan to keep them updated so they work with new WordPress releases. I don’t expect many updates to be required, as the focus of the Core team shifts more and more to features for block based themes.

    — Anders

    Thread Starter Andrew Bondar

    (@kronos1705)

    Thank you for your quick and informative reply!

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