Hi Bogdan / Calin,
since last year you had made some customizations on our travelandspa.it site (which is still currently at version 4.9.6) adding some functions, can we safely upgrade to version 5.1 + WP 5.8.1 without problems and without losing the customizations?
Thank you very much!
Hi RSP, depends if the changes were made in the theme or plugins files and not in a child theme, then yes, those changes will be lost when you’ll update the theme. If the changes were made using tagDiv Composer or adding css in the theme panel without modifying the theme or plugins files then there should be no problems.
Also before making the theme update, please make sure that you have a full backup for your website and database, and only after that update the theme. I recommend to make the update via FTP/cPanel this is the only method that guaranteed that the widgets will not be removed from sidebars -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-how-to-update-the-theme/ (method B. Update the theme via FTP).
I hope this will help you!
Thank you!
Thank you Calin!
The customizations were done directly by TagDiv team (I think Bogdan did them), adding the custom field “post_views_count” in order to be able to realign the number of views after migration.
I don’t know if it was done in the child theme or not…
Is there any way to verify this before updating the theme?
Thanks again!
The child theme can be checked here -> https://i.imgur.com/rEEvdPL.png but to be sure, do not update the theme until you do not have a full backup for the current website and database. Once that you have the backup and something is not update correctly or the extra options are removed, then you can roll back the backup.
Thank you!
