Title: Easier to update theme
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Easier to update theme

 *  [Nic727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nic727/)
 * (@nic727)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easier-to-update-theme/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m new to wordpress and I would like WordPress to be easier to update theme 
   you download from other websites.
    I tried to update mine today with FTP (Filezilla)
   and my website broke. I was just experimenting some stuffs on my new website,
   but I don’t want this to happen when my website will be finished.
 * So my ideas :
 * – Be able to overwrite theme even if it’s the same theme name.
    – Allow creator
   from other website like themeforest to update themes via WordPress.
 * Like that you will not loosing everything.
 * Thank you

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easier-to-update-theme/#post-5825328)
 * > – Allow creator from other website like themeforest to update themes via WordPress.
 * That would really defeat the whole purpose of curating themes in the WordPress
   repo here. To put it mildly, not all theme providers have the high standards 
   that the WordPress theme team does.
 * Vendors _can_ create mechanisms for updating their themes from their own sources
   and many do so already.
 *  Thread Starter [Nic727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nic727/)
 * (@nic727)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easier-to-update-theme/#post-5825710)
 * ok, but why not the possibility to unzip our updated theme over our current theme(
   like when you are installing a new theme)?

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 * Last reply from: [Nic727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nic727/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easier-to-update-theme/#post-5825710)
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