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October 15, 2018 at 6:11 pm #1021694
Hi guys
I tried updating Enfold 4.4.1 to v4.5 several times via the WordPress dashboard now, but it constantly fails.
The error message says that no valid URL has been submitted, that’s it.I regenerated a new API token via envato so it showed me the update again but it still fails – any ideas?
Thanks a lot and best regards
MichaelOctober 15, 2018 at 6:20 pm #1021700Same here with two sites.
October 15, 2018 at 6:22 pm #1021701Just saw my topic here duplicates this one created about 50min ago:
October 15, 2018 at 6:27 pm #1021702Same here :-(
October 15, 2018 at 7:28 pm #1021734Hey,
Please refer to this post – https://kriesi.at/support/topic/enfold-4-5-theme-update-update-failed-download-failed-a-valid-url-was-not-pro/#post-1021541
Regards,
YigitOctober 16, 2018 at 2:10 pm #1022202Updating from 4.4.1 to 4.5 via (S)FTP manually works like a charm
However, the steps to get there are quite a lot. Let me describe it step-by-step here:
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) 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 anybody who has/had issues with updating Enfold to version 4.5.
Feel free to ask me in case you need any assistance.October 17, 2018 at 4:36 am #1022530Hi michaelH,
Thank you very much for sharing the detailed instructions, much appreciated :-)
Best regards,
RikardOctober 17, 2018 at 10:59 am #1022680Hi Rikard
No worries, glad I could help ;)
You may close this topic now please.Thanks
MichaelOctober 17, 2018 at 11:03 am #1022683 -
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