<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I (as well as other theme developers I'm sure) have run into many of these issues with guidelines that cause user-friendliness problems before.<br><br></div>While there's never an ideal solution, there's usually a creative one.<br>
<br></div>I assume we're talking about <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/weaver-ii">https://wordpress.org/themes/weaver-ii</a>, yes?<br><br></div>So, instead of updating it directly which you're very correct, will result in thousands of people blindly updating and then blaming you for breaking their sites, causing a huge support panic, why not release Weaver III with a notice in the Weaver II description and forum to manually upgrade (carefully - with your instructions) to the new version.<br>
<br></div>The idea I posted 2 years ago to help deal with this very problem (<a href="http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/upgradeupdate-warnings">http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/upgradeupdate-warnings</a>) has finally been implemented, so that will help a little, but it's not enough.<br>
<br></div>The root problem has always been that we don't have enough control like plugin authors do, to implement warning messages, changelogs etc.<br></div>