WordPress Tutorial – How to Upgrade WordPress Themes Automatically

How to Upgrade WordPress and Themes Automatically Have you wished that you could get an automatic update notification in WordPress for a custom theme that you have used? You know, like the “update automatically” notifications for “official” themes hosted on WordPress.org such as this one? Or perhaps you have created a custom theme and you would like to have a way for the users of your theme to receive notifications and updates whenever you update the theme? You can then fix up your theme, post a new version and… ta da… all your clients get the notification and can “update automatically” to the latest version? If you’ve been looking to do this… and aren’t afraid of (or enjoy!) working with the git version control system and Github, there’s a very cool way to do all this that gives a very similar user experience: In fact, it winds up being a bit better than the normal WordPress theme auto-update process because after you do the update, you actually have the ability to roll back to previous versions of the custom theme if the new one causes problems: This is something you can’t do easily with the normal WordPress theme update process.