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Before I risk breaking the work already completed, what is the update process and how can I determine if a newer version is available? I’m subscribed to get notifications of updates through themeforest but have received no such notice. I see on your site an update date of August 10. My zip file is dated April 14.
What is the best way to update the theme?
Thanks.
If you have subscribed then you should receive notification mail, don’t know what happened .
In the updated version we have included latest version rev slider and some minor styling change. .
It should do fine if you just update rev slider only..
You can download latest version theme from your theme-forest account > downloads tab .
And you can find latest version rev slider file in frameworks/plugins folder .Updating Theme –
The way I update is to replace all files. No matter what method you use (there are plugins too like this – http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/ and http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/ to update easily), you will need to backup your changes and redo any changes you made to the files on the new installation.Use tools like DiffMerge or WinMerge to compare the old and new files and redo the changes. You will spend probably an hour doing this but not more, specially if you have made changes only to a few select files. The dashboard settings ll be retained and hence Custom CSS entered into theme options should be fine. It’s always a good idea to have a backup though. Hope this helps.
Best way to protect yourself from theme updates is to always make changes in the child theme. The theme is mostly child theme friendly and hence when you have time, you can probably go through the changes you have made to the core theme files and try to move them to child theme so that the core files are not affected and upgrades are smoother.
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