This may be a stupid question, but if I update the theme by just ftp overwriting the folder, what is that going to change with how the site is set up? I see the note about using a child theme, which I haven’t done, and don’t really understand.
Is it safe to just update as suggested, or is that going to mess stuff up?
I personally don’t recommend child theme.
If you made changes to the core theme files, you need to make those changes again.
Updating won’t destroy your current settings, but obviously you SHOULD be keeping backups of your theme settings and your CSS customizations.
Follow my upgrade guide as best way; over-writing is not best method — you need to DELETE old theme folder, then upload NEW theme folder.
Hi,
If you haven’t made any custom changes to theme’s files then overwriting the theme folder via FTP should update it the correct way: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-theme/
To make sure that the overwriting process isn’t causing other issue you could also delete the theme file first the upload the files of updated version.
Please make sure you do a backup of your current theme and WordPress installation before updating it so that you can revert back to it in case something goes wrong.
Update: Thanks Chris! I wasn’t aware you’ve also wrote!
Thanks
I was just here checking to see if anything blew up before I tried to do upgrade đ
I won’t be posting anything else today unless I have some wonderful suggestion of some kind.
Chris, I’m curious why you don’t recommend using a child theme?
