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October 27, 2018 at 1:19 pm #1027003
Hi,
I have 12 sites using Enfold and none of them are updating to v4.5?
They do not seem to be linked to the Theme forest API anymore – is that correct?
When it does connect, I see the message ‘An error occurred while updating Enfold: Download failed. A valid URL was not provided’
This is quite time consuming as you can appreciate?
How do I update the sites please?Thanks
NeilOctober 27, 2018 at 2:28 pm #1027022Hi Neil
First of all: yes, the themeforest/Envato API changed. This is why you need to do the update manually either via plugin or FTP. I personally prefer FTP which works fine.
Please follow these steps to update your sites via FTP:
1) Make a full backup of your website using a backup plugin.
2) Safe the backup somewhere outside from the webserver of your website (e.g. on your local computer or in any cloud storage you trust).
3) Sign out from your WordPress website.
4) Go to your themeforest account, sign in and download the updated Enfold v4.5 to your computer. Extract it and search for the file enfold.zip. Extract this file as well to already have your folder ready to be uploaded.
5) Sign in to FTP or SFTP using FileZilla or any other tool which is able to do that.
6) Go to the folder ./wp-content/themes and search for “enfold”. If you want, you can download the enfold folder to your computer as well (just in case you want to restore if afterwards which is easier like that than using the whole backup).
7) Delete the folder enfold via FTP. This may take 5-10min, depending on the server speed obviously.
8) Wait until it is finished and the enfold folder is gone. If that is the case, upload the “new” enfold folder including v4.5 to your website in the same directory.
9) Sign in to your WordPress website again and go to the Enfold tab (or the one from your child theme). Scroll down to the tab called Theme Update.
10) Your current API token will not work anymore as Envato changed some stuff on their API. Therefore you need to remove your current key and generate a new private key as visible in your themeforest account under “Settings” -> “API keys”. Go to https://build.envato.com and follow the steps there. To me, https://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/how-to-install-enfold-theme/#toggle-id-5 was also very helpful (scroll down a bit there to find out about the permissions your private API key needs in order to check for future Enfold updates). Without these permissions it will not work.
11) Enter your generated Envato key in an incognito/private mode browser window. After revalidating your new private key within the Enfold update tab, you should see a blue rectangle saying when it could be checked for the last time.
12) Done!I hope this helps!
Best,
MichaelOctober 29, 2018 at 11:41 am #1027464Hi NeilJC,
Please refer to the solution posted above or in these threads:
If you need further assistance please let us know.
Best regards,
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