BUG Report: Theme “Ivory” got overwritten from another publisher?

From the file manager in your hosting control panel, navigate to the theme’s directory in wp-content/themes. Edit the file “style.css” and scrol down to “Version:”. Change the version number to something like “99.99”. That should keep it from trying to update.

Thanks! That is indeed a good solution for my wordpress instance to avoid accidental updates.

But shouldnt this not be possible in the first place ? Shouldnt themese have something likea unique ID in the the wordpress theme database to avoid this ?

Just want to raise awareness to the devs for this in future updates.

The problem arises because the theme you are using is unknown to the theme repository on www.ads-software.com. It is distributed and developed externally. The fact that the slug used by this plugin was used for identification by this commercial theme is also unknown to the theme repository.

If someone uploads a free theme to the theme repository that uses exactly the same slug, then those who have a commercial theme with this slug will be offered this free theme as an update, provided that the version number of the free plugin is also higher than that of the commercial theme. That seems to have been the case with you.

You can solve this as described above.

@sterndata – the style.css of this theme only has this commented line for version info – where else could this information be stored if not the in style.css ? Or how can i add this properly so wordpress recognises the command for version 99.9 ?

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by menikan.

Correct. It’s a commented line.

ah i forgot to overwrite the one on the server with the edited one… now it works and gets shown as 99.9 in my wordpress backend ?? thank you!

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by menikan.