Could you please advise how ink themes are updated when installed in wordpress. Are they... 1. In the wordpress admin back office where you are advised the theme need to be updated and it's done with a single click? OR 2. Advised via email that them require logging in to ink themes, downloading the theme and then uploading it to each and every site and then finally activating? Completely ignoring the fantastic update facility that wordpress has built into the program that allows for ease of use and quicker security updates. Thanks
Any chance on a reply with this please? Sometime soon? I'm looking to install an inktheme (that I have developer's rights to) on a new project, but don't want to waste my time if the owner can't upgrade from the back office. He has specifically instructed me that all plugins and themes must be upgradeable from the admin section, otherwise find free one that will because they can all be done that way. Of the themes I have purchased from theme designers I'm on 1 out of 3 and awaiting your answer to see if I can improve the strike rate to 50%. Surely this can't be a difficult question to answer?
Hello, Currently we are not planning to add auto update functionality from dashboard. But in future we will try to implement it. There is no need to update theme again and again. Update is required only if any major issue is resolved or any major update in done in the latest version.
Thank you for the reply... Agreed, themes shouldn't need to be upgraded very often. So the question is why don't you offer it? For the record I have contacted 4 designers I have purchased themes with developer's rights and the results are 1/4 PAID theme designers offer updates via the built in WordPress updater. The one-click updater is one of the key features of WordPress and it is ignored by 3/4 professional theme developers that I have contacted. Nearly all free themes do one-click updates as a matter of course, often adding features and improving as they go. Second question. If I install a theme on a someone else s website how do they upgrade it? Because if they can't upgrade it what's the point of offering developer's rights? Do you really expect people who use your themes in a website build to be going through the hassle of having to login and download, then login and upload to each and every website they have installed your theme on? Because if I charge them for mt time to do that they consider to be gouging or being ripped off. Why? Because they see plugins and other themes -- free themes -- that do upgrade with a single click.And they ask, why not my theme. Even if I got paid and they were happy about me charging them to do something that could be done with a single click, what makes you think I actually want to make a living do that sort of stuu --besides from putting up with the hassle. BTW the last person who I told required an update for told me to not bother, he took the theme down and installed a free one himself. It wasn't an inktheme -- but the principle's still the same. The other alternative is when an update is required I have to waste my time doing it for free . This ultimately means your themes are not cost effective to me , and you really aren't taking care of your customer - me! Just so you know, I won't be installing any theme's that don't have one-click updates anymore because, regardless of the features. Thanks again for your reply.
Hello Djrdixon, Premium theme development companies have lot of users who are using theme on various projects of there own and on there client website and lot of users make some custom changes in the code for designing or development purpose of there project, So implementing one click update in the theme is not feasible, with update all your custom code will be lost and this is a big issue. Free theme that your download from WordPress.org is always support one click update because this is rule defined from WordPress.org that with every update user must be informed with in there dashboard. If in your code any setting or custom code lost with theme update no one is there to answer the users. So they update the theme frequently with no hassle. one more strong reason to update the theme frequently with every update theme author will get more downloads and hence increase in there popularity so they try to fix issue again and again rather than fixing all the issue one at a time. I hope your understand my point, If you have any other queries do ask me.
Fascinating... so what you're saying is that you are punishing customers who don't change the code in your themes because some people do change it?Wow! I would have thought it would be the reverse -- the same as free themes -- that any changes you have made would be lost if you updated. The onus is on the changer to back up their data they change... So the people who use your lite theme's are in a better position for updates than those who use your paid. Surely it would make sense for people who change much of the code to change the name of the theme so it wasn't picked up in an update and then everyone wins. Or use child themes. I'm not a designer, but I know that that is possible having purchased a theme with developers rights called Crystal Theme which was a direct copy with a few additions of a theme called Graphene. It was identical to look at and had "Graphene" all the way through the code. He didn't even bother to change it even though it was in the public domain. The thing was, the Crystal Theme developer is no longer updating his paid theme, and I have since gone back to Graphene, for that reason and for better customer care.And he's not the only paid theme developer who has done that. From my investigations over the last few days ... My opinion is that paid theme developers have very little interest in updating their theme to take advantage of changes and updates in wordpress. They would rather sell a new theme than update and improve an old theme., although most will do enough if it breaks to keep it running.Whereas free theme developers develop their theme as a labour of love. I am much happier now paying a donation to someone like that than I am for a paid theme developer for who it is just a way to make money. And many of the free themes offer more with less hassle. I have already moved some sites away to free themes -- including one of yours. I think you were more accurate when wordpress stipulates a free theme has to be updated from the repository. And you do that because the free them brings you leads, to sell your paid themes. And I understand that it costs money to keep a paid theme in the wordpress repository, so maybe that is the more pertinent answer as to why paid themes are not updated through wordpress, not because people change them -- people change free themes to and cope with the consequences..
Hello, Download updated version of theme from your members area and upload it. Login here: http://inkthemes.com/members/member/index Also check the link for reference http://www.inkthemes.com/how-to-update-a-premium-theme-by-inkthemes/05/
