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Come on, this is poor. If you are editing your own version of themes you should not link them to the original update URL, no matter how unethical that may be.

I now have 32 update notifications! I know there is a suppress update notification plugin but I cannot responsibly use that, imagine if a flaw is found in a theme and I never find out!

Wed, 18 May 2011 14:13:51
  • Mason
    • DEV MAN’s Sidekick

    Hiya MemiahMatt,

    Moving this over to the feedback and feature request forum – hope that’s cool :slight_smile:

    While I can completely understand that having the update notices can be a pain, we don’t have plans at the moment to remove the URL (though you’re, of course, welcome to do so).

    The theme pack is meant to be for folks wanting to provide a large variety of themes in a very controlled instance. If you’re doing this – and not providing any other themes – then you don’t need the theme update notifications anyway.

    Regardless, we do appreciate your feedback here and while this is a free pack offered here – we do value member’s opinions of it. Is this as troublesome for everyone?

    Thanks!

  • Richie_KS
    • HummingBird

    Come on, this is poor. If you are editing your own version of themes you should not link them to the original update URL, no matter how unethical that may be.

    not sure how unethical you mean?

    you do know that the version update notification (only visible by network admin) were wordpress core built right?

    we removed the author links and versions on all themes stylesheet already but the wordpress core still detected all themes as version 1,0+….we did not intentionally link any updates from original themes author or wordpress theme reposity.

    i’ll update the the style.css versions to 133-farm-themes that should auto detect all the themes

    as version 133+.

  • Memiah
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Unethical in that you’re editing others themes’ and distributing them yourself with pretty major modifications.

    And of course I understand that the update notifications are part of the core, my gripe is that WP is telling me I need to update a substantial amount of themes, this is going to cause no end of questions and bother from clients – especially if I just turn around and tell them to leave them. I assume that if I were to take the natural upgrade process, I’d lose all of your modifications?

    It seems like the only solution would be for WPMU Dev to suppress the update notifications by spoofing the version in the stylesheet.

  • James Farmer
    • Founder & Chair (honest)

    @MemiahMatt not unethical at all, couldn’t disagree more.

    What we’ve done, in fact, is take a whole bunch of buggy, broken, issued themes and fixed them all up.

    And then added in a bunch of modifications….

    – They are all ready for multisite (i.e. no hard coding needed anywhere, all work perfectly there)

    – We’ve widgetized, added custom headers, custom menus, post thumbnails and more to the lot of them

    – Other stuff that I’ve forgotten :wink:

    And, of course, retaining the original author’s credits.

    And then released them for free!

    And of course, under the GPL.

    Come along now :slight_smile: Nothing wrong with that is there?