You should at least warn new users to beware the twenty-ten theme, that any changes they make will be destroyed with every update.
*sigh* We do. Over and over and over.
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Updating_WordPress has it in a big red box.
WARNING: The upgrade process will affect all files and folders included in the main WordPress installation. This includes all the core files used to run WordPress, two plugins (Akismet and Hello Dolly) and one theme (Twenty Ten). If you have made any modifications to those files, your changes will be lost.
Instead of updating TwentyTen directly, you should make a Child Theme: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
Those changes will NEVER be overwritten by updates.
Sigh. People setting up a blog and choosing a theme aren’t looking at Updating_WordPress. A warning would be more useful in the description of the theme which they are looking at.
passionateaboutbaking
please start your own thread – don’t hijack others
I’m sorry. My apologies. I thought this was on the forum. Pardon me. I had no intention of hijacking others.
Joe, while I agree, experience has taught me they’re not gonna read it anyway. Seriously. If people aren’t reading ‘Upgrading WordPress’ before running an upgrade, and thus don’t know what they’ve done will be affected, well, that sort of proves my point.
This has been a ‘problem’ since WordPress 1, and while there are plans to disconnect the updater from touching your themes and plugins, it’s not going to happen before 3.2. We accept it’s a risk, we try to get the word out, we know we can’t reach everyone. We are ALL sorry it nailed you. It’s a tricky thing to figure out WHERE to warn people, without having it everywhere, which results in information overload and people not reading it at all. It’s imperfect. We know, we’re working on it.
