Hi there,
Today I was updating all my websites and I noticed a website that hasn’t received an update in quite some time. It is running Newspaper Version: 4.6.3 on WordPress 4.5.4.
How do you suggest I proceed? I guess I can update to v5>v6>v7, but I am not sure I kept all the required files (and themeforest only let’s you download the latest version). Alternatively I could remove the theme completely and install v7 over the current post database. But not sure if I can then import my stylings settings thereafter.
regards
Sebastiaan
Hello Sebastiaan,
The best way to go about this is to create a back-up first.
Thyen simply delete the old theme and install the latest version directly as a new theme. The differences between the 2 are way too many. It will be as switching to a whole new theme. We have tried to maintain compatibility between the theme elements though so you can run the update script for newspaper 4 from here: https://www.screencast.com/t/084XLAKU (this is done after you install the new theme)
Unfortuantely you will have to remove a few elements and replace them with current elements as some will not be available anymore in the current version.
Pages are the ones that require attention the most. Posts will have a changed post style because the old post styles are not available anymore.
Thank you!
Hi Bogdan,
I completely forget about this post. Looks like the update script button was removed somewhere between feb and today.
Is it possible for you to send me an older version of the theme (such as 7.x) where the update button is still present?
If not: Are there some MySQL tables I need to drop to remove legacy settings so I can do a clean start? (Maybe this is best option regardless)
Hello,
Please contact us via email at contact@tagdiv.com and we will provide the file there.
Thank you!
