Help needed for updating the Enfold theme

Hi Yigit,

Thank you for your answer and for your kind proposal to update the theme, I’ll gladly take it!

I’ll create the temporary logins you requested and add it to the private area later, meanwhile could you advice what exactly I should do to prepare the site for the theme update? Should I first update WordPress itself, PHP and the plugins, and then let you update the theme? I also read that “cashing off” is recommendable, but I’m not sure at which step of the process it should be done and if it refers only to browser cache or to other things as well?

I guess that the very first step to do is to make a backup with the backup plugins:)

Understood about the Personal token, I’ll add it after the theme update in order to make easier future updates.

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Dessi

Hi Yigit,

Thanks for the reply! I just finished creating some backups and the required logins:) I didn’t update anything yet, so you can go ahead and start with the theme first:)

I’m posting the logins details below in the private area.

I definitely don’t use any cache plugins, but I’m not quite sure about the server sided cache… Generally, my hosting settings are the default ones, I don’t remember having changed anything related to cache there, so hopefully it will be fine.

Please tell me if you need something else.

Best regards,
Dessi

Hi Yigit,

Thank you so much for the quick help!

I reviewed the site right after your intervention, everything seemed to be working fine. I was aware of the Instagram widget problem before the update – I was hoping that updating the theme/WP will solve it, but since it didn’t, I followed your post and it worked, although it was a bit tricky to make the feed look like your old widget:)
I also tested the backup plugins – they worked fine. I updated the 2 default WP themes to make disappear the red alerts, no problems there either.
I created a Personal token in the Envato site, it was verified successfully in all the child themes, hopefully next time I’ll be able to update the main theme from the WP Dashboard.
Finally, I did a bit of research about the PHP version, apparently WordPress recommends using 7.4 but in the same time their recommended plugin for PHP compatibility checks isn’t updated for 7.4 yet, so I was reluctant, but eventually decided to give it a go. The site seems to be working fine after this final update, I was also able to do backups with the plugins:)

I believe we’re done with the update process for the moment. I’ll continue with adding more content and optimizations. I’ll open another ticket if needed.

Thank you for your kind support and have a nice evening!

Best regards,
Dessi