I have a WordPress theme named “futura” on Themeforest. Few months back, users of this theme started to send me mail stating the problem that they updated the theme and sites layout changed. After searching for the actual cause of this issue I found that there is a theme with the same name “futura…

2 WordPress theme with same name.

FranklinM2 September 17, 2016, 7:58pm 6

@GBJsolution There is a way around your problem. You can programmatically prevent your theme from being updated by WordPress if it is active. I believe you can filter out your theme from the update system.

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