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January 17, 2019 at 6:03 pm #1055091
When updating one of my licensed installs I am having issues updating. Going from 4.2 to 5.2
I tried updating automatically, nope. Tried doing what is in the article here https://kriesi.at/support/topic/update-problem-4/?login_error#post-1035011 with the Update From Zip plugin, failed. So I tried doing an FTP upload of the theme but when I replace the Enfold parent with the new files I get a white screen of death.
I attempted this 3 times, once with Enfold Child and plugins activated, once with just the plugins deactivated, once with both plugins and Enfold deactivated using the WP TwentySeventeen theme activated.
Any suggestions?
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January 17, 2019 at 11:23 pm #1055252how did you upload the folder to your themes folder. Overwrite the files or a complete new upload.
I do alway update via ftp but i do not overwrite files. I rename my enfold folder to enfold-old and upload the newest enfold folder then.
see here some hints: https://kriesi.at/support/topic/some-hints-and-advice-to-update-enfold/#post-1022056This method has a big advantage because there is always a rollback folder if something went wrong.
January 17, 2019 at 11:24 pm #1055254I had a backup so I just overwrote.
January 17, 2019 at 11:29 pm #1055258Do please a complete new upload. Not overwriting an existing enfold folder.
That is what that plugin “Update Theme and Plugins from Zip File” does if you mark to “Enable saving a backup copy of old version… “January 17, 2019 at 11:36 pm #1055259Actually I did that as well on the third try. I renamed the Enfold, and the Enfold Child folders to .old. same result.
January 18, 2019 at 10:16 am #1055381The child is always the same. And does not need to update. That is just the trick – to keep all the changes you have made to the theme.
So now you have on your themes folder an enfold , enfold-old and enfold-child-old folder but no enfold-child folder ?
What was the last theme you have activated before the wsod ?January 18, 2019 at 12:50 pm #1055429Guenni,
Perhaps I’m not explaining this properly. On the first attempt with enfold child as the active theme I attempted to update with Update From Zip. That failed, but the site was up and fine.
I then tried to update the via ftp, over writing the enfold folder. Result wsod. Restored Backup.
Activated twenty seventeen, renamed the enfold folder, uploaded the new version, when I activated enfold wsod. Restored backup.
Repeated this and renamed both enfold and enfold child, renamed the child folder back, activated it, wsod.
I know how child themes work. I tried it just to be sure. I have 30 active licenses and this is the only one getting the wsod.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by MichaelAlbany.
January 18, 2019 at 3:05 pm #1055470What php Version is running on that system.
I got a lot of customers which have older php versions before – and that’s something you sometimes forget to check when reinstalling. Because as far as I’m concerned the new enfold only runs correctly from php versions 7.January 18, 2019 at 3:08 pm #1055472As I am telling he support guys in a private message, this is on a managed WP server (which is what I think is the cause) and that it is WP Version 5.0.3
PHP 7.2. Other info was provided to them that I won’t share publicly.January 18, 2019 at 3:12 pm #1055474ok – then i’m out here – sorry – you have to wait for mods now to solve the issue
January 20, 2019 at 5:04 pm #1056189Hi MichaelAlbany,
Please, refer to this thread with the procedure to update Enfold:
If you get the wsod again, please check the server log for error and write to us.
Best regards,
VictoriaJanuary 20, 2019 at 6:11 pm #1056224Victoria,
Please close this ticket. Issue has been resolve. It was the upload method. Long story, blame GoDaddy.
January 20, 2019 at 9:43 pm #1056332Hi,
We will close this now. Thank you for using Enfold.For your information, you can take a look at Enfold documentation here
For any other questions or issues, feel free to start new threads under Enfold sub forum and we will gladly try to help you :)Best regards,
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