Documentation for historical WP versions

  • Resolved mattspace

    (@mattspace)


    1 year ago

    Hi,

    I’m constantly running into problems with WP documentation that it’s all written for new versions, and new technologies. How can I find the contemporaneous documentation as it was written for old / obsolete WP versions?

    For example, right now I’m trying to implement search (using searchform.php and search.php), and the tutorial at:

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/documentation/article/create-a-search-page/

    …assumes I’m using Blocks. Well I’m not using Blocks or the block editor, so where can I find a version of this information for WP 4.8 using the classic editor.

    Indeed, where can I find the WP 4.8 documentation – is there a dedicated url for getting to each releases’ documentation?

    I’m not going to upgrade my WP install to solve this.

    • This topic was modified 1 year ago by mattspace.
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  • Ryan

    (@rrhode)

    1 year ago

    Hello,

    Is this what you’re after? https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Creating_a_Search_Page

    The old Codex is still available but things have moved to the new articles format.

    Is there a specific reason you wouldn’t want to update WP? Is it incompatibilities with plugins or a theme or do you just not like the block features? I’m just curious and maybe there’s a way around whatever it is that’s stopping you from updating if you are at all interested in updating.

    Ryan

    Thread Starter mattspace

    (@mattspace)

    1 year ago

    Yes, thanks, that’s what I was looking for.

    As to why not upgrade? Because what I have isn’t broken, and I don’t like the newer versions when I try them. *shrug*

    George Appiah

    (@gappiah)

    1 year ago

    As to why not upgrade? Because what I have isn’t broken, and I don’t like the newer versions when I try them. *shrug*

    Well, that must mean this is not a critical website for you, and that’s fine 😀

    That’s because you don’t wait for critical systems to break before you fix them. And I certainly don’t want to wait for my primary business/income-generating website to get so out of date that it throws errors… or some vulnerability gets found and exploited (ie gets broken)… before fixing it. That would be so an expensive mindset to have.

    Thread Starter mattspace

    (@mattspace)

    1 year ago

    Just because things are changed, doesn’t mean they’re fixed. IMHO apart from security fixes, almost everything WP has done since 4.8 has been to the platform’s detriment. What you call “fixes”, I call “breaks”.

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