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Thomas Yes, every theme developer uses a different approach for changelogs. I used to include a changelog.txt in all my themes. I personally switched to use the readme.txt for changelogs for the following reasons: 1) There is already a valid standard for the readme.txt for WordPress plugins. 2) Therefore there exist already classes to parse the readme.txt which I could utilize for the plugin. 3) Otto said on the Theme Changelog proposal that readme.txt will be the way to go: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/04/26/changelog-proposal/#comment-41266 So when theme changelogs come to WordPress Core they most likely will be using readme.txt. As result I think it is better to get theme authors to include a valid readme.txt in their themes, rather than support all different types of files and formats.
Thomas
Yes, every theme developer uses a different approach for changelogs. I used to include a changelog.txt in all my themes.
I personally switched to use the readme.txt for changelogs for the following reasons:
1) There is already a valid standard for the readme.txt for WordPress plugins.
2) Therefore there exist already classes to parse the readme.txt which I could utilize for the plugin.
3) Otto said on the Theme Changelog proposal that readme.txt will be the way to go: https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2015/04/26/changelog-proposal/#comment-41266
So when theme changelogs come to WordPress Core they most likely will be using readme.txt.
As result I think it is better to get theme authors to include a valid readme.txt in their themes, rather than support all different types of files and formats.
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