Solving WordPress server error message in Add New theme screen

[javistuff]

Hi there!

A quick heads up for something that was troubling our setup.

On the Add new theme screen, we were getting this error:

"An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums."

Seems like interfering the themes_api in this screen won't behave nicely. Mostly because not all arguments are present in the request. We've fixed it by adding this:

if ( !property_exists($args, 'slug') ) return false;

right before this line:

if ( $args->slug != $theme_base ) return false;

Just wanted to share it here, in case someone needs that too. Thanks for this great library!

[ve3]

Hi,

I don't understand how themes_api filter works? Is it working only in add new theme screen?

In this page (https://github.com/jeremyclark13/automatic-theme-plugin-update/blob/master/theme/update.php) said "Take over the Theme info screen on WP multisite". But the theme info screen (like plugin screen modal dialog - as I understand) is just iframe and already got it via theme_update action.

And the add new theme screen don't have my custom theme in there because all of theme list here is on WordPress.org only.