Theme Updates
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You will be notified in the WordPress admin each time a new updated theme version is available. Install the update following instructions below.
After updating the theme, you need to update the version of the required plugins:
Appearance → Install plugins
Please pay special attention to installing and activating the required plugins:
Appearance → Install plugins
To keep things safe please consider and database before doing any updates to your website.
If there is a specific procedure required during the update, this will be shared on the Facebook and pages.
You can get automatic theme updates with help of plugin. , or read a .
Download the theme ZIP package from where you've obtained it originally. Then follow the steps below:
Updating via WordPress dashboard
A simple way of doing a manual theme update is deleting and reinstalling the theme directly via WordPress dashboard. You can or on how to do this.
Updating via FTP
Download the newest theme ZIP file from where you've obtained it and unpack the ZIP file on your computer.
On your server navigate to WORDPRESS_FOLDER/wp-content/themes/
folder.
Delete the existing ileana
folder (or create a backup just in case - you can do this simply by renaming the folder name by appending .backup
to its name so it becomes ileana.backup
, for example).
Copy the unpacked theme ileana
folder from your computer (from step 1 above) into WORDPRESS_FOLDER/wp-content/themes/
folder on your server.
Log into your WordPress admin area and check the version of the theme in Appearance → Themes. Your theme should be updated now. (And you can delete the ileana.backup
folder from step 4 above.)
This is more advanced manual update procedure and you will need an FTP client (such as ) to connect to your server:
Now you will need an to connect to your server.