Remove jQuery CDN feature

[retlehs]

as of wordpress 5.2.1, wp core decided to add -wp to their custom patched version of jquery

see: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47020

and it doesn't look like jquery 3.x will land any time soon: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37110

jquery is something that's still used by a whole lot of wordpress plugins, but we're going to go ahead and remove support for this feature in soil. the way that core has and continues to deal with jquery is something i'd rather not support.

recommended plugin for retaining similar functionality: https://wordpress.org/plugins/commonwp/

regarding this comment from wp core developer azaozz:

Thanks for alerting the devs of Roots Soil. The "proper" solution would be to stop loading the unpatched jQuery from a CDN, and load the patched version from WP.

the "proper" solution is for wordpress core to not manually backport jquery patches into their custom version of jquery, and actually upgrade to a version that is ancient (3.x), but at least not prehistoric (1.x) 💋

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[garretthyder]

Thanks @retlehs good call. All the best

[DanielRuf]

the "proper" solution is for wordpress core to not manually backport jquery patches into their custom version of jquery, and actually upgrade to a version that is ancient (3.x), but at least not prehistoric (1.x) 💋

Hi there, I am the person who created the backported patches.

Upgrading is often not a solution as this breaks many things.

A string at the end of a version is still valid SemVer afaik.

[coliff]

Now that WordPress uses jQuery 3.5.1 perhaps the jQuery CDN feature could be re-introduced?

[strarsis]

@coliff, @retlehs: The same topic came up in the Sage 9.1 update branch PR.
Never used this feature myself, but should it be re-introduced with the current browser-, WordPress-, stack-landscape in 2021?