wp.com theme > self-hosted site

  • Resolved mozarty

    (@mozarty)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    In my search for themes, the one I’ve settled for is a free theme found on wordpress dot com. My question is: Will this theme (Motif) be updated (a notification in the admin panel) as plugins/themes from www.ads-software.com would be?

    My assumption is, this will not be the case. I’d rather know for sure!

    I have Googled for this information but have not *obviously* found an answer.

    After extracting the zip file, downloaded from the .com site, I looked for a license.txt file – only to not find one included.

    Thanks, in advance.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Unless Automattic decides to fix the theme up and release it for free on www.ads-software.com, no, you will not receive automatic updates for it.

    However, they do just that quite often, and currently the Automattic theme team has around 42 themes here on w.org. Motif is not yet one of those.

    Thread Starter mozarty

    (@mozarty)

    Thank you, Samuel. I’ll look around more.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Didn’t mean to imply that it was a bad theme. All the themes available through .com are pretty good. But they’re not all available on .org yet, so they don’t get updates.

    If at some point in the future they submit it to .org, then updates will become available for it then.

    Thread Starter mozarty

    (@mozarty)

    You’re reply was not misconstrued, my friend. Motif is a nice theme. It’s not completely out of the picture for me to use, just yet. I understand too; if I go that route, keeping up with updates Automattic releases will be soley my responsibility, in the interim.

    After doing more research, I learned of the possibility of using SVN. Looking at the ‘updater.php’ file, I gleaned WPCom_Theme_Updater from it. That search led me to a post on www.ads-software.com, talking about using SVN.

    For posterity sake, here is a link to that discussion.

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