future of raindrops?

  • Hello!!
    To Nobita-san: Being the best supported theme for years it feels a bit abandoned now. No updates for longest time and now my webhost upgraded the PHP to 8.0 so everything went white. Now it′s temporary back to 7.4 where it worked. In November I′m forced to go 8.0.
    Question: Is Raindrops going to be updated or is there a urgent need to find a new theme.
    Raindrops has been great so have no wish to change if not necessry.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Theme Author nobita

    (@nobita)

    Hi @soile2020

    No updates for longest time and now my webhost upgraded the PHP to 8.0 so everything went white. Now it′s temporary back to 7.4 where it worked. In November I′m forced to go 8.0.

    I’ve just started looking into what kind of error Raindrops raises in PHP Version 8.0.12.

    WordPress 6.o.2

    install plugins

    • On This Day (by Room 34)
    • AddToAny Share Buttons
    • ARI Fancy Lightbox – WordPress Popup
    • Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more

    One multisite simply updated to PHP8,
    One single site with activated plugins that you use on your site.

    So far I haven’t found any errors that cause “everything went white”.

    Is it possible to use WP_DEBUG to tell me what kind of error you get?

    If I know what caused the error, I maybe able to fix it.

    I’m certainly not actively updating Raindrops, but I’m not giving up on maintenance.
    One of the reasons I stopped updating is the changing environment surrounding WordPress themes.
    Modern WordPress does not use the PHP templating system that this theme uses.
    In such an environment, the theme would break if I tried to adapt it to the latest WordPress features.

    The WordPress theme directory hosts 5000 themes, but only 150 themes are compatible with the latest WordPress.

    Most themes are now called classic themes, similar to Raindrops.

    For now, I love meeting people like you who love Raindrops.
    I would love to help them, but I can’t promise how long I will be able to do so.

    Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by nobita.
    Thread Starter soile2020

    (@soile2020)

    Hi Nobita and thanks for answering!
    The problems so far have been plugin related. That I always could figure out myself but now I had to contact my webhost because I didn′t find the problem and they told me that my current theme can′t handle PHP 8.0 which they now upgraded to.
    They temporarely changed it back to 7.4 so right now no problems.
    The theme itself has worked fine all these years.
    I′m very used to work with wordpress since forever but I′m definitely not an IT expert:)
    I try to use the WP_DEBUG and see.

    Thread Starter soile2020

    (@soile2020)

    Hi Nobita!
    Did the debugging but I can′t say I undertand it much:/ should I send you a link?

    Theme Author nobita

    (@nobita)

    should I send you a link?

    Please sent me.

    Thank you.

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