Open Source WordPress Theme Updates Tool

A plugin that allows you to select Themeforest themes that you have purchased and recieve notifications of updates from that plugin. The version can be changed by the author in the item settings.

So the user downloads the plugin and selects: Chuck Norris’ Ultra Mega Super Duper Fantabulous Cookery WordPress Theme, sorry revaxarts it doesn’t exist

The theme author then has a control in the item settings that can change the version of the theme, once it is changed it alerts the user in the updates part of WordPress that a new update is available.

It would be great. That way, every wp theme will have this feature.

I love this a lot, and I’ll start work on a solution to this today. I’ll paste bin my progress later, for input etc.

Yes please.

I’m interested too.

Good idea.

Waiting for the pastebin.

Oh yes, Great idea. i am waiting

Here’s the one we’re all using: https://github.com/unisphere/unisphere_notifier

I think it would work like this:

in functions.php, you’d place this code snippet:

require_once('update-notifications.php');

function theme_updates_notification() {
checkForUpdates('http://www.mysite.com/theme_version.txt');
}

add_action('admin_notices', 'theme_updates_notification');

and then you’d of course have to place the update-notifications.php file in your theme folder. I’d be happy to contribute if you like =)

contempoinc said
Here’s the one we’re all using: https://github.com/unisphere/unisphere_notifier

Well, I was about to post what I had (told the user there was an update in the header of the dashboard, to admins only, by connecting to a server and retrieving the result), but there’s no point reinventing the wheel. Same design approach.

Though, it’d be nice if each WordPress item page had a version number, which could be accessed by the API (thus, no relying on third-party servers).