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Thanks for the replies.

I tried your way Chris S but it’s still returning the same error.

Catalln: given it’s installed on my local windows machine can I still use FTP? Or is that only if I’ve it live on a web hosting server somewhere?

Thanks.

You need to tell Avast it’s not malware as an exception; one of many reasons I no longer use Avast. 🙂

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Best way to do this is to learn to use FTP and manually delete the old theme folder, then upload the new theme folder to /themes/ folder and new plugins to the /plugins/ folder in wp-content on your website.

Seriously, worth learning to do – simple, quick, consistent. You know it works, because you’re doing it.

Also good time when doing that to make local backups by downloading your site to your HD, to have safe copies of your site, old themes/plugins, images, wp-config, htaccess, etc.

You may have permisssion issue on your folders.

Best way to do this is to learn to use FTP and manually delete the old theme folder, then upload the new theme folder to /themes/ folder and new plugins to the /plugins/ folder in wp-content on your website.

Seriously, worth learning to do – simple, quick, consistent. You know it works, because you’re doing it.

Also good time when doing that to make local backups by downloading your site to your HD, to have safe copies of your site, old themes/plugins, images, wp-config, htaccess, etc.

I have not seen any official word on this topic from TagDiv. I got the same message. As for FTP via FileZilla, I keep trying to download it from the offical site and Avast keeps flagging it as malware (grrr!). I thought about doing the patch instead of the full install and can see how that would get time consuming and cumbersome.

Is the issue due to an incompatibility in the latest WP release and the theme?

Cheers

Hi

I’ve tested the solution and it works fine on my end. Try to clear all caches, purge cdn files if you’re using then test the site again.
Let me know how it goes and if you still can’t manage to solve this please address us via email at contact@tagdiv.com and provide wp-admin and ftp access so we can have a closer look.

Thanks!

HI

Those files are not available in wordpress editor, you will need to edit the required file on your computer then upload it on the server via ftp in your-wp-install-wp-content/themes/Newsmag/parts/header
Before making any changes in your site make sure you do a full backup to your current wp-install and the database also: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

Thanks!

Luckily there is option to export your custom settings from theme, but not changes made to core files. This is why FTP is best as you can keep local copies, make changes then upload over the working theme, and if anything not working, go back to safe template that you worked on until you dial it in.

But that’s just me … 🙂

Then if you need/want the latest VC plugin version that works with theme, your option is to download it with the ‘all files’ bundle, extract it from the /plugins/ folder and upload via FTP to your site. This presumes you’ll have backup in case it does not work as you expect, such as when VC changes some of its block code/CSS from time to time without warning.

Hi Guys,

Thanks a lot for your help. Indeed, I had to use FTP to change the theme.

Anna

I had the same issue as the OP, you will have to use FTP to change the theme. FTP instructions here https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/

Something changed after the last wordpress 4.6 update.

• This reply was modified 9 years by Michael.

Hello,

I started encountering this problem in the past few weeks. It might be a wp problem. Found a solution that worked for me:

1) FTP into your site;
2) rename wp-content/themes/newspaper to wp-content/themes/newspaper-old;
3) Upload new version of theme;
4) then I was able to delete old version.

Here’s the link to the wp support thread where I found the solution:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deletion-failed-the-requested-theme-does-not-exist/

Hope it helps!

@Chris S

Sorry to be a little unclear in my last post. So again: When I follow your procedure:

a) delete old version of theme AND the included plugins via FTP
b) install new version of theme in theme folder via FTP
Here I meant: Via FTP I upload the renamed Theme in theme folder. The original Theme Name is “NEWSPAPER” Before I´m able to upload the Theme I have to unzip the Zipped Newspaper theme file. When I´m done with unzip I have the Mains Theme Folder “Newspaper” where all relevant Subfolders and files of these Theme are included.

I meant exactly to rename the unzipped Main Theme Folder “Newspaper” to “WebsiteTheme” for Example.
After I have done this I upload this renamed Main Theme Folder to the WordPress Theme folder.

I don´t want to delete any attributs to the Newspaper Developers with this action. Just to make it harder for Bots to find out by Default which Theme I use. If this bots search for Structures like wp-content/themes/Newspaper then the will not find any files cause I have renamed my Newspaper Main Folder.

Hope it is clear now for what I was asking for 🙂

Sorry, but English is not my native Language.

@ thanop
Thank´s again for your detailed answer 🙂

@ Chris S
Thank´s too for your words about this Issues.

b) Maybe a silly Question – If I nename the Newspaper Folder for Example “WEBSITETHEME” and upload this renamed Theme folder via FTP does this cause any bad Effects (for Example: Path´s inside Newspaper´s Theme Structure – or are this path´s all relative) ? Or should I do it exact the way you have described?

I ask this question just to make it harder for hackers to discover my Themes Structure. As we all know, Newspaper is a most used Template meanwhile…

Thank´s for reply

The best way to upgrade is

a) delete old version of theme AND the included plugins via FTP
b) install new version of theme in theme folder via FTP
c) upload updated plugins to plugin folder via FTP
d) login to admin panel, resave permalinks
e) optimize dbase with wp-optimize

That is how I’ve been doing it past 3 years with theme back to version 1x. 🙂

@thanop – Thank´s for describing how you resolved this Issue.

Just two questions:
You wrote that you manually deleted the Newspaper folder and all it´s files insides this folder.

After that, did you install the theme in backend of WordPress or did you install the Newspaper manually via ftp?
Did you loose any of the settings which you have done after updating?

Thank´s for your reply.

Best Regards, Karl

Hey Catalin, i did that, but does the code save somewhere else in the files that may be accessed in the FTP? Only reason i ask is because i have cleared the cache after removing the script, and it still seems to be having an effect on things?

Hello,
I am having the same problem mentioned above by Edge44.

I read that one of the changes in the latest version of WordPress was that theme changes would all be done on one window.

Does all of this mean that we can only change the theme using FTP?

Thank you
Tom

Learn to use FTP; best way to properly delete things as you know they are gone. If you have aggressive caching running, you should disable that when doing theme changes. If using CDN, you need to poke an update.

Try using wp-optimize to clear transients in your dbase; also resave permalinks whenever you change themes to clear stuck rewrites.