How to Update Newmag 1.4 to 1.7 and Will I lose any setting in Process

Hello,

I’m using Newsmag from last 1 Month and it is really good but today I got a mail to update my theme version from 1.4 to 1.7 Please give me steps how to update my theme from WordPress and In the process will i loss my custom setting in the theme files.

Your response is appreciated.

Thank you.

I would wait if I was you. I tried updating 1.4 to 1.7 yesterday and it didn’t go according to plan. There are some issues that the devs are aware of. So stay frosty and wait for 1.8 I suppose 🙂

Thanks Mate . But will i lose my custom setting if in cause i want to update it

I went from 1.4 to 1.6 with zero problems last week.

Last night I upgraded site from 1.4 to 1.7.

Only issue I had was NORMAL issues of some of the sidebars getting reset (meaning some of the widgets didn’t save); and had to “resave” the homepage just to reset it. All settings normally carry over due to the built in “transient” settings of WordPress. Everything else was exactly as I’d left it.

You should also be regularly doing backups of your site, theme settings, etc.

If you made custom changes to the core files (e.g., style.css etc.) you would, of course, need to apply those changes to the new files.

1.7 works fine with couple of minor issues, depending on if your hosting co is running old php tech which is really somewhat deprecated.

So far only bugs I’ve had are one spacing issue in a stock WP recent posts widget, and the modules in Visual Composer won’t let me filter by any author except myself.

Everything ELSE is working fine for me in 1.7, but SOME people are having some weird issues which are common with all WordPress site changes/updates like this. Main issue is the use of some code in the theme which is not playing well with OLDER versions of php (we are running PHP Version 5.4.22).

So, check the version of PHP you have … if 5.4.22 or newer, should be ‘mostly’ fine.
OR: wait for a dot revision of 1.7.1 next week, I’m guessing.

Don’t know if that helped or just re-peated the other posts, but my two cents anyway. 🙂

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.

Can any one share me steps to update my theme

Thanks in advance

Sure Chris, but I wouldn’t defend the fact that update works well when so many people had problems. It is beyond me why their quality control is so bad when so many people bought the theme. There must be an element of *if we f**k this up, people aren’t going to be impressed* which was what happened not only to me but to many.