Hello,
The shop on my site http://www.flowingfree.org looks horrible, and we are looking to hire someone to make it look how we want it.
I am wondering if any changes they make will be lost when the theme is updated?
Does anyone know – we don’t want to do all the work, only to have it erased with an update.
Thanks,
Michelle
Hi Michelle, We just updated our theme and it is a disaster! We already spent money having the people on envato studio but they want to charge for every single detail. So it’s getting expensive. Be ready to have changes with the theme upgrade. It is not fun. Maybe when you hire the designer have them upgrade the theme before they make it like you want it.
Hello all,
Please notice that none of our theme updates are not intended to spoil your site but their purpose is to bring more improvements to the theme. Please keep in mind that before each update you should make a full backup to your database to avoid losing all of your data and to be safe. Ensure that the update has been correctly made via FTP way according to our documentation from here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/ Also, please notice that you have some additional customizations to your website, for the next update, if you did not save it to your backup, all of these will be overwritten by the theme code.
Thanks for your understanding!
I’m not sure what you are saying – Do you mean the updates don’t wipe out changes?
I have backed up the site using updraft plus, and have not lost any changes that are there now – you say that for the “next update…..all of these will be overwritten by theme code” Why is the next update different?
And if I back up by FTP, and changes get wiped out, and I revert to the back-up version, won’t I loose the updates?
Hello,
If you alter the theme code, it will get replaced. If you add code to the theme panel, it will not get removed. There is a difference in editing a theme php file versus placing code in the theme panel. Php file modification will be replaced.
Thank you!
Ok, so just to be clear – I should use the custom css, html, java, etc.. in the Theme Panal and avoid making modifications to the code anywhere else?
Thanks
It is recommended as much as possible if you do not want to re-implement the modifications after each update. When updating the theme, all of the theme files get replaced so your code will be gone and you then have to re-apply your modification to the files after the update.
Thank you!
