[wp-hackers] A question about theme updates in WP 2.7

[Jacob Santos]

Perhaps I misunderstood then. The only themes that will be upgraded are 
the ones that are on the WordPress Themes Extend site. If your theme is 
not on that site, then the theme won't be automatically upgraded. Well, 
there are ways around this, but it will be up to you to find out how. 
There are two ways, I might be wrong about one way, but it could be 
dangerous if I tell, so I won't.

Any child themes will naturally not be upgraded, they are not tied to 
the parent theme, so if the styles are already in the child theme, 
nothing will go wrong. If the child theme is within the parent theme 
(which it should not be), then yes it will also go away. Child themes 
should be in their own directory.

Jacob Santos


Krusty Ruffle wrote:
> Thank you for the reply!
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>> Without looking at the code, I will have to answer that it works like the
>> plugin upgrade code. Therefore, yes, if you have styles in the same folder,
>> they will be removed along with the theme.
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> I was afraid of that.
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>> You should recommend your users switch over to using child themes instead,
>> if they wish to make modifications. There are also improved inclusion code
>> that will include parent theme files or use the child theme files if they
>> exist.
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> Yeah, but a lot of these tweak files are for child themes already. It would
> be feasible if grandchild themes worked, but this is not the case.
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> Jacob Santos
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> Thanks again for the information, I really appreciate it.
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