Making update notification functionality for my themes

the question is simple 🙂 I am making a theme that i will use in lots of sites. So, i don’t want to go all the site and ftp the files every time i fix a bug or do a theme upgrade.

Is there any way i can make a update system like the plugins hosted in wordpress plugin directory.

Looking forward to your answer. Thanks!

Solved:

Thanks Chip Bennett for his excellent link. The update library for themes is now available in that site. You can find it here: http://w-shadow.com/blog/2011/06/02/automatic-updates-for-commercial-themes/

Always consider donation if you see some excellent work that made available for free.

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You can also hook into the core update routine. (I’m looking for tutorial links, but my Google-fu is failing me this morning.)

EDIT:

See if this tutorial helps. It explains how to implement automatic upgrades for private/commercial (i.e. non-repository-hosted) Plugins.

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