Update Themes

Please show your style.css header

/*

Theme Name: Tora

Text Domain: Tora

Version: 1.0

Description: Responsive, Fast, Minimalistic, Stylish

Tags: all around, Nice

Author: Thor Stiefel

Author URI: https://tora.is/

*/

Do you recall what change(s) you made to style.css?

It shouldn’t update unless it thinks it the Twenty Twenty Four theme are you are using an existing theme name. If you are creating the theme there wouldn’t be any updates unless you created the update. Are you starting from a blank theme or modifying the Twenty Twenty Four Theme.

A. How can I update my theme and not have WP override it with another theme?

If you’re using a block theme, just modify the theme in the Site Editor, don’t touch any theme files: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/site-editor/

If you’re not using a block theme, or you really feel the need to modify theme files, create a child theme: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/

Ok, I am starting a fresh. I delete all existing themes and write all my files. So here is what is so strange: After I delete theme files and add my style.css and modify it, WP brings up a message that says there is an update available. That update (if I check the update) install Twenty Twenty Four and overrides all my existing files and folders.

@steven Stern

I made a change in the comment about theme version

If you set the version to 99.9, it should stop offering to update, whatever else is going on.

Thanks Steven –

When you say you’re writing your own theme files with all other themes deleted, are you starting from scratch (as in writing into a previously blank file), or are you modifying existing files?

If you’re modifying existing files, where did you get them from?

@macmanx I am adding empty php, css files etc. and writing my own code, i.e. not modifying existing theme. As I said – starting from scratch

What directory did you put the files in, specifically the full directory path to style.css starting with /wp-content/?

/wp-content/themes/my-theme/style.css

Excellent, with that location and the CSS header from earlier, it shouldn’t be replaced with any other theme going forward, assuming Theme Name, Text Domain, and /my-theme/ remain unique from anything found at https://www.ads-software.com/themes/