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Hi – i installed an Envato private token that seems to be working and communicating properly, but when i “check manually” for a theme update (we are on 4.5.7), it says no update required. What is going on? Thanks for your help!
Hey charger70,
Have you also tried to update via FTP already?
If not, please try the following guide in order to update to Enfold.Update your website manually 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!Best regards,
Jordan ShannonHi Jordan – yes, i can do SFTP but i was hoping to do it from the Enfold control panel.
can you explain why it is not seeing the need for an update?
Hi,
It may be API envato is using.
The following steps MIGHT solve the issue:
1. Download the latest Enfold update from themeforest
2. Open the admin part of your wordpress site and download the pluging called Update Theme and Plugins from Zip File
>make sure you select the option within this plugin to generate an automated backup from your current theme
3. Go to themes, upload the entire enfold zip-file and install the new theme (do not delete any old theme from the theme overview)
> the plugin will update the theme without overwriting any other things; it justs updated the theme.
4. Activate the themeBest regards,
Jordan ShannonJordan – that was super helpful and yes, the envato key is “working” but will not download the update file.
it should be easier than this!
i appreciate your help very much.
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