How to update the theme?
To update the theme please follow the steps below:
- Make full backup of your files
- Download the latest version of the theme from https://themeforest.net/downloads
- Go to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Remove theme license
- From left menu select Appearance > Themes
- Activate a WordPress default theme like Twenty Seventeen or Twenty Sixteen. Don't worry, all your settings made in our theme will be kept and not overwritten
- Remove the old theme version
- Finally, upload the latest theme version you downloaded from Themeforest and activate it.
That's all!
To update the theme via FTP please follow the steps below:
- Make full backup of your files
- Download the latest version of the theme from https://themeforest.net/downloads
- Remove license from homepage of your admin panel
- Go to wp-content/themes and remove or rename current transpress folder to eg. transpress-old
- Upload theme_name.zip and extract it
- Go to WordPress admin dashboard and activate the uploaded theme version
- Lastly, make sure to update the plugins from Appearance > Install Plugins.
All your settings made in the theme will be kept and not overwritten.
If you plan to modify the source code of the main parent theme, we strongly recommend to install child theme and make such modifications inside this child theme in order to avoid any possible problems & issues by installing updates of the main parent theme in future.