{"id":150,"date":"2014-09-16T06:07:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T06:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/?p=150"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:35:42","slug":"how-to-update-the-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/how-to-update-the-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How to update the theme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. First you need to download the latest version of theme.\u00a0Log into your Themeforest account and navigate to your downloads tab. Find the \u201cStellar\u201d theme purchase.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the \u201cdownload\u201d button next to it and choose to download the \u201cInstallable WordPress Theme\u201d which is just the WordPress file, or choose the \u201cMain Files\u201d which is the entire package which include theme documentation, plugins etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Update using WordPress Dashboard<\/h4>\n
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    1. Backup current Theme Setting > Backup. You will get a .JSON file (just in case everything went wrong and you still have theme settings backup file to import).<\/li>\n
    2. Also you may want to use a plugin to automate backing up your current theme and uploading the new version: http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades\/<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. You need to deactivate \u201cStellar\u201d theme in the Appearance > Themes<\/strong> by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, you can delete the Stellar\u00a0theme. Don’t worry. You really won’t loose any of your data.<\/li>\n
    4. Get\u00a0the \u201cStellar-v…installable.zip\u201d file from Themeforest\u00a0Account > download<\/strong>. If you downloaded the \u201cMain Files\u201d from Themeforest, then you need to unzip the archive file you received, the Stellar-v…installable.zip\u00a0will be inside of it.<\/li>\n
    5. Upload\u00a0Stellar-v…installable.zip using\u00a0Appearance > Themes <\/strong>once you uploaded successfully, activate the theme.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Update using\u00a0FTP<\/h4>\n
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      1. Backup current Theme Setting > Backup. You will get a .JSON file (just in case everything went wrong and you still have theme settings backup file to import).<\/li>\n
      2. Also you may want to use a plugin to automate backing up your current theme and uploading the new version:\u00a0http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades\/<\/a><\/li>\n
      3. Login to your FTP account.\u00a0Navigate\u00a0to wp-content > themes<\/strong> location and backup your \u201cStellar\u201d theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply delete it.\u00a0Don’t worry. You really won’t loose any of your data.<\/li>\n
      4. Get\u00a0the \u201cStellar-v…installable.zip\u201d file from\u00a0Themeforest\u00a0Account > download<\/strong>. If you downloaded the \u201cMain Files\u201d from Themeforest, then you need to unzip the archive file you received, the Stellar-v…installable.zip\u00a0will be inside of it.<\/li>\n
      5. Drag and drop the new “Stellar” folder into\u00a0wp-content > themes\u00a0<\/strong>and select “Replace” if you didn’t delete it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        First you need to download the latest version of theme.\u00a0Log into your Themeforest account and navigate to your downloads tab. Find the \u201cStellar\u201d theme purchase. Click the \u201cdownload\u201d button next to it and choose to download the \u201cInstallable WordPress Theme\u201d which is just the WordPress file, or choose the \u201cMain Files\u201d which is the entire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themegoods.com\/stellar\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}