[theme-reviewers] About My Theme "Infinity"

[Otto]

I'd also suggest to them that perhaps they should choose a name
unlikely for anybody else to put in the repository in the future. If
they had named their theme "Infinity by PressCrew" in the style.css,
for example, then they probably wouldn't be having this issue.

Names should be unique, or namespaced, or prefixed, or something to
that effect. Avoid using generic names.

-Otto



On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Kirk Wight <kwight at kwight.ca> wrote:
> You've simply got a theme in the WP repo; there's nothing you have to do.
> The problem here really seems to be on PressCrew's end, and however it is
> they've implemented their theme updates.
>
> It's great that you're willing to help them, but if their email is implying
> that you have to do something about it, that would be wrong.
>
>
> On 29 June 2012 06:58, Mike Dave <designcoralblog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a lot Greg, i think it should work for PressCrew.
>> I am also waiting for some other opinions.
>>
>> Just Thinking:
>>
>> Should there be another check with theme-slug before checking the version
>> update in the WordPress core ?
>> Example: theme-slug AND author (or something else). It is just an idea, i
>> am not that it is acceptable or not.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> That one line should have been
>>>
>>> unset($checked_data->response[$theme_base]);
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I'd suggest you tell PressCrew to include code that intercepts and
>>> > removes theme update information.
>>> >
>>> > ===
>>> > add_filter('pre_set_site_transient_update_themes',
>>> > 'infinity_remove_update');
>>> >
>>> > function infinity_remove_update($checked_data) {
>>> >   $theme_base = basename(get_template_directory());
>>> >   unset($checked_data->response[]);
>>> >   return $checked_data;
>>> > }
>>> > ===
>>> >
>>> > Somewhere in their functions.php should do the trick. They'd obviously
>>> > need to check that though.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Mike Dave <designcoralblog at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Hello Admin,
>>> >>
>>> >> My Theme Infinity is available to public in WordPress Repo. I have
>>> >> submitted
>>> >> my theme by keeping the WordPress Guidelines in mind especially about
>>> >> name.
>>> >> I have searched the WordPress directory for the name "Infinity" and
>>> >> there
>>> >> was not any theme related to Infinity, so i decided to choose the
>>> >> name.
>>> >>
>>> >> Now i have received an email from PressCrew and a part of email is as
>>> >> follows,
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> Congratulations on your Infinity WordPress Theme, it's looks great.
>>> >>> Sadly
>>> >>> there's a big issue that has popped up for our WordPress project that
>>> >>> has
>>> >>> the same name.
>>> >>> Our Infinity is also a free WordPress Theme and has been released
>>> >>> about a
>>> >>> year ago (http://infinity.presscrew.com). We've build a great
>>> >>> community of
>>> >>> users of the past year, and it has become a valuable tool our users.
>>> >>> Currently our theme is in beta 3 and thousands of people have
>>> >>> downloaded it.
>>> >>> Why am I telling you this? Because today all our users got prompted
>>> >>> to
>>> >>> update to a new version of Infinity through the WordPress dashboard.
>>> >>> We were
>>> >>> extremely confused because we had not pushed out any update (since
>>> >>> the theme
>>> >>> is not yet in the repo!). It turns out that it's actually WordPress
>>> >>> thinking
>>> >>> that your version of Infinity is the theme that's being used by our
>>> >>> users.
>>> >>> In practice this means that several of our users have accidently
>>> >>> overwritten
>>> >>> our theme with yours. I don't have to tell you the implications this
>>> >>> has for
>>> >>> our users.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> So what you people suggest me about this issue.
>>> >> Waiting for response.
>>> >>
>>> >> Take Care
>>> >>
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>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>>
>>>
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