hi, im brand new to newspaper theme, purchase the other month, and this is the first time that i’ll have done an update. so i’m a little bit nervous.
i’ve a question or two.
the website advises that a number of options are available in how to updated. the two that i’ll choose between are either
1. use the envato market plugin
2. via wordpress upload
q. are either of the above preferable or both will work just fine?
the instructions for uploading to wordpress advise to deactive old version of theme, remove completely, then upload new theme and activate. then update the plugins.
q. i may be being a bit dumb here but if i do these how will the current layout of my website be remembered and not lost?
See these guides 1. https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/ 2. https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/ 3. https://forum.tagdiv.com/install-via-ftp/
Option 3 is the best and more recommended option for updating the theme to ensure everything works smoothly with no errors. It is recommended to back up your site so that if anything goes wrong, you can roll back to the previous theme. As for your question, see this http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-update-a-wordpress-theme-without-losing-customization/ (I don’t work here).
thanks for your reply.
i’m confused about the losing the customisatiosn bit. In the “how to update your theme” instructions they make no mention at all of anything that looks like the info in the article on the wpbeginner website regarding the rentention of customisations.
So, i guess my question is this. If i just follow the instructions on the “how to update” page, am i going to have re-do the whole layout of my website from scratch and all the theme stuff such as adsense and lots of other things?
Hi… I usually update newspaper theme via wordpress and I don’t have any problem about losing customization. If you are try to update via wordpress, I recomend to change folder name first ex: newspaper87 to advoid existing theme from previous.
But please back up your data before updating to make sure everything safe.
CSS customizations are saved in the database if you saved them in the custom CSS section of the theme panel (assuming you don’t use a child theme). But if you made any custom modifications to theme files, they will be lost when you delete the theme before updating, unless you back them up and upload them afresh to replace the new ones (assuming nothing was modified in those files). But if you use a child theme, you can delete and upload the parent theme without any problems.
cheers. i was looking at using updraftplus to backup everything first, is that good choice (im hosted on siteground)
