How to Update WordPress Theme without Losing Customization
Hi
During the update process any customization made in theme’s core files will be lost becasue old files are deleted and new ones are uploaded instead. However you ca use theme’s patch to make the update but this works only from one version to another, ex from V 7.3 to V 7.4.
The changes made in theme’s panel and the code from custom code wont be lost after the update: http://screencast.com/t/cgiaDxUg
Thanks!
how to do this theme’s patch ,and is it possible from 6.7 to 7.4 ,
Best regards
Hi
No the patch can’t make the update from 6.7 to 7.4, you will need to update the theme according with our documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ If you made any changes in theme’s core files they must be added again after the update is completed but make sure that they don’t break theme’s functionality.
Thanks!
Hi,
is there any download library to download patches individually?
I have made some changes to the code on version 7.1. Now I’m stuck on it, because I only have patches to upgrade from 7.2 -> 7.3 and from 7.3 to 7.4.
So I’m missing patches from 7.1 -> 7.11 and 7.11 -> 7.2., and on Envato there is only the newest package.
I tried to rebase the full code in git, but I’m probably not mastering that so well yet 😛
Ha, no worries! I did get some good advices and now I’m on version 7.4.
Could you say me how you did it ?
Using Git, I’m still trying to learn it so I’m not any good on advising how to use it properly. And I tried several times to do it, so I’m not QUITE sure how I actually did it…
But here is what I think I did:
1. I created an master branch with original code
2. I created side branch with my modified code
3. I added updated files (updates from tagdiv@envato) on the master branch
4. I committed the changes
5. From master I rebased (not merged) the code with my modified code
I was few steps ahead with my own codebranch, so before doing the actual rebase I also rebased it few steps, like
$ git rebase -i head~5
Earlier I tried to merge the code, but that did not work so great. Rebasing did the job.
Thank you, I will try it and say you
