I currently have Newspaper 8.6 installed and my site (www.superkaiju.com) and saw the email about upgrading to the new 9.5.
What is the best way to update the theme without losing all my settings?
I have WordPress 5.0.3
Hello 🙂
I have the same request than SuperKaiju. That is why I allow myself to post here too.
First time I have to update a theme by myself and for sure our first fear is to loose everything.. that is why I come to you here and hope I will find some help to get a process to follow.
WP : 5.0.3 and Newspaper Theme : 0.2
By advance I thank you much.
Hoping hearing from you soon.
Bella.
Hi,
The most important thing is to make a backup before updating
– https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Do it by your preferred method. having a backup is most recommend in case something wrong happens, or there are complications.
As for the update itself, the most recommended and reliable method is by FTP
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-update-the-theme-2/
The theme panel settings, ad codes, custom code are saved by the theme in the database for the purpose of not being lost after an update. So there should be no problem in this matter.
If you use a child theme be sure to check the list of modified files for each update, if there are files that have been modified in an update by us, serving the old files from a child theme may cause problems. For example in the latest update the header.php was one of the modified files
– https://tagdiv.com/td_deploy/Newspaper/changed_files_9.2.1_9.5.html
So serving the old file from the child theme may cause problems, there were some cases. You would need to copy the new file in the child theme and redo the modifications/additions that are needed. The same for other files that have been modified by us.
After you update, clear all caches, CDN if used.
Thanks
Thank you so much Simion!!!
it is very clear and detailled and i truly thank you for it and for the time you took so we can have this answer 🙂
I am going to try this weekend 🙂
Love from Paris!
Bella.
