[theme-reviewers] About My Theme "Infinity"

[Chandra Maharzan]

To that, I have a theme called Cleanr in the repo, posted 3 years ago.
Surprisingly, I just saw another Cleanr in one of the theme shops. I
thought it was unique. :) Its hard to find a name nowadays. I guess
theres not copyright or sort of things so not sure what to do.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> 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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