Me worrying about 4.0

We cannot guarantee that you will not have problems with plugins or themes. The best way to future proof yourself from these kinds of problems is to choose your plugins & themes carefully. Only download from www.ads-software.com and try to pick those that have a good support and upgrade track record as these are the developers who will (almost certainly) be testing their plugins and themes in WordPress 4.0 whilst it is still in beta to try and avoid such issues.

Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from running a test site using WP 4.0 alpha/beta yourself if you want a heads up on the next cycle of changes etc.

But you can confirm that the 4.0 upgrade will be of the same nature as that of 3.0? As in a major upgrade that has high impact on how wordpress works and the functions it uses that plugins/themes depend on.

From what I have read, a great deal of the changes will be focused on re-writing WP’s internal code but plugins & themes that are coded to www.ads-software.com standards should continue to be supported. It’s just the poorly written themes & plugins that might fail.

Alright, thanks for the info. So in short wp4 will make it easier to develop themes and plugings for it? Make the code more user friendly and clean and better orginized?

final up:

do you think there is a high chance some new feautures will be added?

Is Jetpack going to be merged and become part of the core?

Thanks for your time!

wp4 will make it easier to develop themes and plugings for it?

Umm… no. I don’t see that happening, personally. I think you will still need the same level of expertise to develop themes & plugins.

Make the code more user friendly and clean and better orginized?

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Can you clarify – preferably with some examples?

do you think there is a high chance some new feautures will be added?

Oh yes – there are always juicy new features in every major update! I’ve just not had a chance to see what’s in store myself yet.

Is Jetpack going to be merged and become part of the core?

Not as far as I am aware, no.

Nvm my second quoted message.

Is this theme gonna break?

https://www.ads-software.com/themes/simply-vision

As in is it written good enough to survive an upgrade? I’m working on a big site that will use this theme and that is why I’m asking.

All the themes on www.ads-software.com have to meet the same high standards https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Review – It shouldn’t matter which theme (on www.ads-software.com)

Since 4.0 is really just the next step from 3.9, it’s not really a .0 version, just a numerical counter. From what I can tell, it’s not a windows 7 to windows 8 thing, just some changes.

Then again, as we have seen with 3.9, what wordpress developers consider minor may in face be a big deal for many. I personally almost always avoid x.x.0 upgrades, they almost always have issues, and it helps keep yourself from getting cut by the bleeding edge.