After talking it over with Jane, here is what I think.<br><br>Hopefully, by WordPress 2.9 the ability to inform the user that a Plugin or Theme is not compatible with the WordPress version upgrade should be in place. If the Theme or Plugin is in the "official" Extend directories, they will be requested to upgrade those before upgrading WordPress, or some such process. If the Theme or Plugin is not from the Extend directories, they will get a message informing them that information is not available. They are still working on finalizing how that will all work. <br>
<br>For us, two things happen.<br><br>1. The need to create and update the compatibility pages stops. The job will be taken over by the interface (Administration Panels). We will just need to put our energy into educational articles that continue to help people upgrade their Themes or Plugins manually - for themselves or developers. In other words, what changes have to made to a Theme to make it compatible with the new version that go beyond just having the original Theme author update their Theme (for those who created their own).<br>
<br>2. We need to start educating users NOT to look to the compatibility pages but to the interface for compatibility information. This has to wait until we have a clear outline on the process, but start thinking about how we can inform and educate the WordPress Community from within as well as outside of the documentation. <br>
<br>Thanks again for bringing this up. I'd love to spend more time creating great documentation and educational articles than babysitting the old stuff that is obsolete, so I'm thrilled about this step in the improvement of the WordPress Administration Panels. <br>
<br>Lorelle<br>