Why Are Inactive Theme Updates Displayed?

  • quantock

    (@quantock)


    10 years ago

    Hi Guys

    I have the Twenty Ten theme active on my blog. However, when I look at the updates section, I am notified of updates for a handful of other themes, namely:

    Twenty Eleven
    Twenty Twelve
    Twenty Thirteen
    Twenty Fourteen
    Twenty Fifteen

    – Why are these themes appearing as updates if I am not using them?

    – Is it because they are new versions of the theme for each year??

    – I want to update to a responsive theme, so if I updated to Twenty Fifteen, would this stop all the other theme names appearing in my update warnings?

    Thanks

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  • implenton

    (@implenton)

    9 years, 12 months ago

    Hello quantock,

    you can have as many themes installed, but you can have only one theme active.

    Installed and not active themes are themes you have disponible to activate. A theme can be activated only after you install it.

    WordPress is tracking by default all installed themes for changes, it does not matter if the theme is active or inactive.

    An update for a theme might be a very small change or a bigger one. Every WordPress theme has a changelog. The changelos is where they list the changes. For example here are the changes that were made for the Twenty Fifteen theme https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Twenty_Fifteen_Theme_Changelog.

    It is always a good idea to make the updates for all the installed themes. They might contain security updates.

    I hope this answers your questions.

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