Unable to update WordPress theme

  • jose.sg

    (@josesg)


    14 years, 12 months ago

    I have a WordPress theme thats installed and has been running fine for a while. I recently needed to update the theme itself, and I did so using the built-in theme editor. Upon reloading the site, the theme changes are not presented in the markup.

    Removing the index.php file from the theme or changing it’s name results in a blank page as expected, but removing all contents of the theme’s index.php does not have a similar effect. In fact, the WordPress installation continues as if I had not made index.php blank.

    I have no caching plugins installed, Varnish is not present, memcached is not in use at all, and neither is APC.

    I attempted upgrading all the plugins and WordPress itself. The raw-html plugin I have installed failed to update with a fatal error about an include on line 16, but that include was not present. The update worked fine when I renamed the plugin filename though (from raw_html.php to raw_html1.php).

    I’ve “updated” WordPress 7 times to 3.1.3, and it still believes it’s on 3.1.2. The files installed are definitely the 3.1.3 files. This may or may not be related.

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  • Curtiss Grymala

    (@cgrymala)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    Dumb question, but you’re sure you’re updating the theme that’s actually active on the site, right? You’re not trying to update a parent theme while a child theme is active or anything, are you?

    I don’t know if the weird upgrade issue is related or not; but I’ve seen a handful of other people report that they’ve had that same issue with the upgrade to 3.1.3.

    Thread Starter jose.sg

    (@josesg)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    I’ve manually deleted all the other themes on the box, so yes, I’m updating the correct theme. If I weren’t, deleting the index.php file in the theme folder wouldn’t have any effects.

    I’ve done the changes both through the WordPress editor as well as through ssh+nano.

    Curtiss Grymala

    (@cgrymala)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    Can you give me a list of the files that are in your theme’s directory?

    Thread Starter jose.sg

    (@josesg)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    Here is a screenshot: http://cl.ly/0f1G2c451l0C1m1D0P2q

    Curtiss Grymala

    (@cgrymala)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    Very strange.

    Any chance you can try updating WordPress manually to see if that corrects the version error and possibly the theme issue?

    Thread Starter jose.sg

    (@josesg)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    It appears I was wrong about APC caching, so I’m currently in the process of attempting to get a new admin hook into the WordPress core for when a theme is updated.

    I also appears someone tried this a few months ago, and the issue was punted without much response. http://core.trac.ww.wp.xz.cn/ticket/16396

    Thread Starter jose.sg

    (@josesg)

    14 years, 12 months ago

    I’ve made this simple plugin, seems to work well enough, that creates a sudo-hook around both theme and plugin updating: https://gist.github.com/a92e511c5f1d299716cc

    One caveat is that I think themes are loaded before plugins, and so it looks like calling this hook from a theme’s functions.php file fails. Not sure what the best solution to this is.

    I’ll also post this to the trac ticket in case anyone wants to use it.

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