Unfortunately, it’s not possible to add support for plugins and themes outside of the WordPress.org repo to the plugin.
The good news is, the udesign theme author can add support to their theme! I’ve written a short tutorial here:
http://pento.net/2013/07/02/commercial-plugin-updates-done-right/
this is great – thank you! it doesn’t seem the theme author wants to do this. is this something that i can ask my computer programmer to do to my theme’s files? (i’m a mere graphic artist and am clueless about these things)
I also have this problem with my plugin – revolution slider – will this tutorial work for plugins too?
sorry – one more thing – is it possible to exclude certain plugins from being updated automatically?
Your programmer should be able to add it, though I’m not at all familiar with the theme to be able to give specific instructions.
It should be able to work with revolution slider, or any other theme or plugin.
You can remove a plugin by hooking into the pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins filter and removing the plugin from the $value->response array, instead.
