Child theme wrongly updated because of name

  • Resolved tastymouse

    (@tastymouse)


    2 years, 7 months ago

    I have the weirdest issue. I have a child theme which I named Joyce. This worked for many years but now there is a WP theme named Joyce and WordPress thinks this is the same as my child-theme so it wants me to update the theme.
    Does this mean I have to rename my theme?
    And should I always use the term childtheme in my child theme names, like joyce-childtheme?

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • When WordPress checks for theme updates all it can use is the name of the theme, which is determined by the folder name. The safest thing to do is to rename your theme. Also, if you set an impossibly high Version number in style.css, such as 9999, that will also prevent updates, as any theme with a lower version number won’t be seen as an update.

    Thread Starter tastymouse

    (@tastymouse)

    Hi Jacob, From now on I’ll create better names and I already did what you suggest and set the version number to a high number.
    Thanks, Tom

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