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Hi
I’m helping a friend update a long-neglected website on WordPress which was running a child theme under Enfold 3.0.4. The website was built by a commercial designer so we don’t know what the licence arrangements were at the time. Now we’ve updated both PHP and WordPress to the current versions, the old Enfold theme causes a fail. If we want to update to the latest version of Enfold a) do we need to buy a new licence and b) would you think the child theme modifications might still be compatible?
Thanks for any help and advice :)
TonyHey Tony T,
Thanks for your question, since you state that the site was built by a developer long ago, I assume that it was built using their Envato (Theme Forest) account and not your friend’s, unfortunately this occurs. So you will need to purchase a license though a new account with your friend’s email address so they have future updates. Then you can download the latest installable WP version from your Theme Forest account and upload it to your WordPress ▸ Appearance ▸ Themes ▸ Add Themes ▸ Add New
after you choose the zip file and click install, you will see a This theme is already installed message because you are updating, you can continue,
then you will see the Theme updated successfully message.
After which you can go to your Theme Forest account and create a new Token for future automatic updates.
This will not interfere with your child theme modifications.
Please note that while we don’t expect any errors, the best course of action for such an old version is to create a stagging site, most webhost have this option, then update it first to see if you have errors. If it works fine then create a full backup, with your webhost options, and try the update on your live site.
Please also note that Enfold 3.0.4 is not PHP v8+ ready, so you will need to switch back to the v7 version before updating the theme.Best regards,
Mike
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