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Rather than posting to another that I’d started, because it’s related, I’ll start a new one. I have a site that’s running on Enfold, but when I upgraded the PHP in it everything crahed. The solution that I was told was to update Enfold to the newest – but I’d lost the key to the old one, so had to rebuy it. How can I move what it’s running on to the newer version, without uninstalling, then installing the new one – because the potential for errors is HUGE.
Thank you!before you change anything – make a backup of the status quo of your page ( a good plugin even in free version is : duplicator
Especially if it is a major update (5.x to 6.x; …), I would advise everyone to follow this way. You always have a rollback in the background.
The advantage of this procedure is that it can be undone.
Uploading the new theme takes a little time; if all goes well, the site will only be offline for a short time (just for the moment of renaming).
Update via ftp- Download the “installable WordPress file only” file from themeforest (envato) and unzip it
- After that – you got a folder : enfold
- Rename this downloaded newest version to enfold-new
- via ftp: Upload that enfold-new folder to the themes folder
- via ftp: Rename the existing enfold folder to f.e. enfold-old
- via ftp: Rename your uploaded enfold-new folder now to enfold
- On Enfold – Performance – check mark and “Delete Old CSS And JS Files?”
- Check if your Website works to your full satisfaction.
- Yes – then stop here – Update is finished
- After a while of testing – you can delete that enfold-old folder via ftp
- No – delete or rename back the enfold folder back to enfold-new
- rename the enfold-old folder back to enfold
- check on enfold board if there are known bugs – or similar problems
Hi,
Thanks for helping out @guenni007. Did that answer your question @robertwein?
Best regards,
Rikard
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