Aging themes

  • windwhistle · Member ·

    Is there a way to tell the age or release date of a theme in the showcase, or a way to list themes in order of release? If I go to all the trouble of changing themes, I’d like to know the new theme isn’t going to be discontinued anytime soon.

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  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    You can get the commit date of a theme by going to our Theme repository in Github and clicking on the history tab of that particular theme to see when it was released:

    https://github.com/Automattic/themes

    However, age is only one predictor of a theme’s impending retirement. There are many factors that go into a theme’s retirement, so I wouldn’t heavily rely on how old a theme is. Many of our current themes are optimized for the block editor, so they should be around for a while, but there is no surefire way to determine when they will retire.

    Of course, you can continue to use a retired theme as long as you want, there just won’t be any more updates or bug fixes to the theme.

    Hope that helps.

  • windwhistle · Member ·

    Thanks, Darnell. This info should be helpful.

  • windwhistle · Member ·

    In looking for a new theme, I found that my current one, Opti, has been discontinued. If I switch to a new theme but later decide I don’t like it, would there be any way to revert to Opti?

    Also, I can’t find Beacon, the one I’m switching to, anywhere on GitHub. Is it about to be discontinued too?

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    If you had Opti active on your site, you’ll be able to switch back to it, but I do recommend sticking with newer themes in general. :)

    We don’t currently have any plans to retire Beacon.

  • windwhistle · Member ·

    Thanks, mac. I have loved Opti for a number of years and reverted to it several times after newer themes didn’t work as well. Maybe Beacon will be a keeper.

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