I am very happy to see that this theme is being updated so frequently. However, whenever I download the latest ZIP file and upload to my Word Press it doesn’t seem to recognize it as a new version. It says the theme is already installed.
My only option seems to be:
to extract the theme ZIP
rename the folder
upload
re-do all my customizations!
This is very painful, and there must be an easier way. Am I missing something?
Site’s customizations are not affected by theme update. If you are needing to re-do the work in your site in every theme update, then you must be doing something wrong.
Sorry but if you update from wordpress dashboard directly (uploading a theme you have already installed) then of course the “Theme already installed” message will appear because that folder wordpress is trying to create, already exists.
If you do not want to deal with this, then there are two other ways. 1-Update via FTP:
Go directly to your server’s wp-content/themes/ folder and upload theme files here. You can save a backup of previous theme files by renaming old theme folder, or just overwrite entire theme folder with the new one.
2-Update via Envato Market:
This plugin is created especially to help you update as easy as possible. Just check from the plugin’s options if there is any new release of theme and by the click of a button you get your new update.
Keep in mind that this plugin will not save any backup for you. If you have made changes to theme files directly, they will all be overwritten by the update.
Let us know.
I was under the impression that a theme could be designed to allow itself to be updated by re-uploading the ZIP file. I now see that this is an unfortunate design-miss for WordPress in general. Thanks for the fast response!
