[theme-reviewers] theme_update_available

[Caroline Moore]

Is it possible you already have the latest version of your theme  
installed? I always have the latest versions (or even newer versions)  
of my own themes--because they're, well, mine--so that message will  
never appear.

On Oct 8, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Tom Matteson wrote:

> Greetings ...
>
> I have a theme on the Repository that has been updated a half-dozen  
> times or so. My understanding is that WordPress.org runs a cron job  
> twice a day that checks all the self installed WordPress  
> installations to query which themes, plugins etc are installed. From  
> what I have read the theme_update_available function in theme.php is  
> supposed to display 'There is a new version of %1$s available' with  
> an update url, whenever there is a new version of the theme, if it  
> detects a there is a newer version of any of the installed themes  
> that reside in the Repository. Unless I am misunderstanding  
> something, this is the default behavior, unless the theme has added  
> some code to bypass the this function.
>
> I have not added any functions to bypass the  
> theme_update_available(). However, even though I see the update  
> message displayed for other themes, I have never seen it displayed  
> for my theme, Wordsmith-Anvil. Does anyone know what would cause  
> this function not to work for my theme?
>
> Best Regards
> Tom Matteson
>
>
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