I got it going on http://notdoneliving.net/ fine but found the process a bit bemusing.
I'm running a child theme of my own built on Hybrid and didn't get notification there was a Hybrid upgrade available with the red circle as I'm used to for plugins and comments. When I went to the Themes page it showed 0.6 as available and I picked "automatic upgrade" and it warned me that my personal customisations would be lost (not true given it's a framework theme) and I clicked OK.
It upgrades much like a plugin, here's the text:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/hybrid.0.6.zip.
Unpacking the update.
Installing the latest version.
Removing the old version of the theme.
Theme upgraded successfully.
Actions: Preview | Activate | Return to Themes page
And I stupidly clicked 'Activate' because I wasn't thinking straight and then got panicked because my child theme wasn't displayed on the site and I had in my head that it had warned me I might lose my customisations and some part of my brain thought it had deleted my child theme or somethnig!
Of course I went back to 'Themes' and activated my child theme again and all was perfecto, so the only problem I had was user error. But the whole thing is obviously not designed with parent/child themes in mind ... it obviously knows that Hybrid is my parent theme because on my Themes page it says "Not Done Living uses templates from Hybrid." I just felt like the process was not handled well for upgrading parent themes.
I'd like to be:
a) notified via the red circles there's an upgrade to either a parent or a child theme I'm using.
b) told that any changes I've made to the name-of-theme-being-upgraded will be lost, not just "any changes" period which is confusing.
c) When it's done, don't display the preview/activate/etc. with no other text if it's a parent theme. I bet I'm not the only one who was confused by it!
But all in all the process worked fine. I'm just criticisising it's lack of user friendliness when using parent/child themes.
Cheers,
r
