The `the_header_image_tag` function was introduced in WordPress 4.4 as part of [35594]. It is used in all themes created post WordPress 4.4 that supported header images. The function `get_header_image_tag` continues to get updated with new image features, like lazy loading, async decoding and fetch priority. To ensure our core themes maintain compatibility and benefit from these enhancements, a backward compatibility shim has been applied, integrating the `the_header_image_tag` function into the following core themes:
- Twenty Ten
- Twenty Eleven
- Twenty Twelve
- Twenty Fourteen
- Twenty Sixteen
This change ensures future compatibility and modern image features are applied for header images to these older themes.
Props spacedmonkey, flixos90, mukesh27.
Fixes#58675.
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@56583
git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@56095 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
f19df46584