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Hello,
I have purchased the new licence for the 2.3 version of Specular theme, the current version on our website is 1.3. We have made a back-up. Envato Toolkit does not recognise the API Key, so I could not get any feedback on the update of the theme version currently on the webiste.
I would like to ask for help to update my outdated theme without losing the current content and look of my website. Our website: https://china-outbound.com/
Last time I have tried to upload the new version of the theme to WordPress, but it got merged and demo files were applied, which resulted in a crash of website.
Currently, a lot of the features of the webpage are crashing, I assume it is because of how outdated the theme is (E.g. of features crashing Portfolio, Accordion view in the composer, Composer updates, etc.).
Thank you for your help in advance.
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Hello,
You can always download the latest theme version from your Envato account. Just go to ‘Downloads’. The latest theme version will always be available for download. Currently the latest version is 2.6.
Yes, you have a very old theme and it’s important to keep it up to date. To update theme without affecting the current theme data, please follow the steps below:
Update via FTP:-If you do not have a ftp account, then ask your host provider to help you get one. Or use the cpanel to access the files.
Step 1 – Go to “wp-content > themes” location and backup your “specular” theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply rename it. So you’ll have both versions installed. Your content will not be lost.
Step 2 – Retrieve the newly downloaded “specular.zip” file from your hard-drive and extract the file to get only the “specular” theme folder.
Step 3 – Drag and drop the new “specular” theme folder into “wp-content > themes” location. Choose to “Replace” the current one if you did not rename or delete it.
Step 4 – Lastly, update the included plugins! You will see in your wordpress dashboard, a notification message letting you know the plugins have a new version and need to be updated. Follow the on screen steps.If you need further help, let us know.
Best regards!
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Hi again,
last time I did exactly this way you described above and then the WordPress asked me to activate the new theme and the activation replaced all the content. I want to avoid that.
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I managed to update it :) Thank you very much.
The theme is coming with the WPBackery Visual Composer, however, I have trouble updating that as well. I have purchased a new license for the Specular theme, why can’t I update the Visual composer with that?
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Hello,
The purchase code of theme can not be used for it’s included plugins.
We have purchased extended licenses for all included plugins. This means they can be used by any one purchasing our theme as long as they use the version included in theme folder. To use them, just install plugin from Plugins menu and activate again from the Plugins menu. This is enough to use the sliders normally. There is no need to activate it in the slider’s options.
The only restriction of this type of licence is that you can not update it on your own terms.
The rules of the marketplace don’t allow us to give the plugin activation code. You can use the existing version without any problem. We update frequently all theme plugins to their latest versions in almost every theme release or in case when an urgent update is needed. So they are always fully compatible with the current theme version.If you want to buy a license by yourself this is allowed, but we thought that this isn’t needed because the version included works perfectly.
You are free to make the choice that best fits your needs.Read this article on how to update plugins from theme: https://support.codeless.co/?ht_kb=visual-composer-update
Best regards!
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