I’m currently attempting to migrate a site running the 4.x version of the theme to the current version of the theme. However, while I’m able to install and activate the theme, running the included migration script has had u predictable results.
The site has a large amount of content and, to test the update, I created a dev instance of the site and ran the script. The home page became completely malformed with no apparent styling and distorted markup.
I repeated the process and the script appeared to work better, but still not correctly. It appeared as though the layout was correct, but not images were rendered on the home page as they previously had been.
I’m a bit puzzled as to how to proceed as running the script has caused unpredictable and damaging results when run against identical copies of what is in production. Given this, I’m hesitant to attempt the update on production as I believe there’s a strong chance it won’t work properly.
Has anyone encountered this? Is there a resolution? Thanks!
Hi Sundial,
Newspaper 6 is a whole new theme so an update from 4.X to 6 may cause the same issues as switching to another theme (but we did try to maintain compatibility where ever possible).
Always make a full backup of your current installation – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups and then do a clean update, meaning that we recommend that you delete the old version of the theme before uploading the new one – https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ update also the plugins that come with the theme files from the /plugins folder. In the “how to update” guide is specified that you will have to run the script that will import from database your settings.
The shortcodes have been changed so old ones will not work anymore. Please note that old files customization or custom css will not work with the new version and you will have to adjust or re-add them.
Bottom line is that newspaper 6 is a whole new theme built from scratch.
Unfortunately you will have to clear your agenda and spare a bit of time to adjust all your settings to the new version of the theme.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank your for your understanding!
