I run over 10 blogs and have a parent theme which all of them use. The other problem I was running into was the child theme is always active, so to get the update alert that a new parent theme is available, I had to active it (the parent theme).

To have the update look for the parent theme, rather then the child theme, I did the following:
1) Open the theme update.php file
2) Change: $theme_base = get_option(‘stylesheet’);
3) To: $theme_base = get_option(‘template’);

That keeps me from having to activate the parent theme. Again, great plugin, thanks!

Just a note that your original script could cause a problem if you want to update the child theme.

This will get the parent theme info.
$theme_data = get_theme_data( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/style.css’);

While the one will get the child theme info.
$theme_base = get_option(‘stylesheet’);

So the the original script will get the wrong version number for the child theme. Not sure how to fix that yet.

echo -n $”Starting $KIND2 services: ”
daemon nmbd $SMBDOPTIONS

Thanks!

Thanks,

Jason

But I am encountering a problem in plugin information when applying it to multiple plugins. Only one plugin displays the information, the other plugin that uses this feature are empty page. When I am changing the “10″ in add_filter(‘plugins_api’, ‘plugin_name_api_call’, 10, 3); the other plugin displays the plugin information, and the previous one turns empty page. When I var_dump the $api variable in install_plugin_information() function of wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php, it is null. Can you help me? Did you managed to apply it in multiple plugins? Your help is highly appreciated. Thanks!

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thanks.
//shyfur

1. I have an old theme (that there’s an update available for) activated
2. It will not show there is an update available
3. If I delete another non-active theme the “update available” is then suddenly appearing for the active theme

Catch my drift? BTW, I’ve overheard some conversations in the Trac about changes for the update check which may be beneficial for this project: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18876

//Frankie

Anyway, thank you.

I would like to protect the package url. Now it is a direct link to a zip file but I would like to point to a download.php file. So, my question is, how the file content (of the zip file) has to be served from the download.php file that wordpress can install it?

Best regards,
Daniel

I’m toying with the idea of turning this into a WordPress plugin so that people can just install it directly onto their own WordPress install, then just dump the URL for the download link into an admin page and have it all sorted automagically. Could even have it spit out the PHP required to be added into the theme/plugin perhaps. It’s just an idea at this stage but something I’m toying with a bit as it seems like it would be useful.

One change I would make is to move away from global variables and use constants instead. Constants are generally a better option for static strings that need to be used globally.