Just like your WordPress website version, it’s also important to make sure that your WordPress theme is up to date. This ensures security, compatibility and full functionality to your whole WordPress site. There are two ways on how to update your WordPress theme:
Important Note: Make sure this process is done overnight when there are least expected visitors on the website. Do the preparations listed below before applying changes to your website:
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Update now Link
Step 1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard via the link yourdomain.com/wp-admin (replace yourdomain.com with the domain of your website) or on any of the methods below depending on your web hosting plan.
Step 2. Click Appearance on the menu bar at the left side of the page.
Step 3. Click Themes from the drop-down options.
Step 4. Click on the Update now link of the theme that you are using.
| Note: If you are using a child theme, only update the parent theme to retain the customizations made to the WordPress theme that you are using. If the website does not work after updating the parent theme, contact the theme creator for support. |
Manual Update
If an updated version of your purchased theme is released, your theme provider gives you access to the theme file. Most of the time, the update now link does not show for themes that are not from WordPress.org. So, you need to manually upload them by following the steps below.
Step 1. Activate any theme on your WordrPress dashboard other than the theme in question. This gives a temporary theme to your WordPress site while the main theme is being updated.
Step 2. Log in to cPanel.
Step 3. Click File Manager under Files.
Step 4. Go to your WordPress website files and open wp-content/themes folder.
Step 5. Right-click on the theme folder to show the drop-down options.
Step 6. Click Rename. We are renaming the theme folder to uninstall it from the website without deleting. The renaming can also be done by connecting to FTP.
Step 7. Enter any word or letter at the end of the folder name. For example, on the folder name of Twenty Twenty theme, we can add _old at the end as a reminder that it is the older version of the theme.
Step 8. Manually upload the new version of WordPress theme file.
Step 9. Activate the updated theme in your WordPress dashboard.
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