{"id":241,"date":"2016-09-19T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/learn\/?p=241"},"modified":"2016-09-19T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:59:49","slug":"1-how-do-i-update-my-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/1-how-do-i-update-my-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"1. How Do I Update My Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engitech&nbsp;comes with the ability to update automatically via 2 different methods. You can use&nbsp;the Envato Toolkit for automatic theme updates and notifications or you can update manually via FTP\/SFTP.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Before Updating<\/strong>:&nbsp;Before updating your theme make sure <em><strong>WordPress is up to date<\/strong><\/em>. The Engitech&nbsp;theme makes use of all new functions provided in WordPress to keep things optimized and up to date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Option 1: Automatic Updates Via Envato Toolkit<\/h3>\n<p>The Envato Toolkit is a great plugin created by Envato so you can update any ThemeForest theme right via your WordPress dashboard. You can have a look at the full guide below to see how this plugin is used.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"theme-button\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" title=\"Envato Toolkit Download\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/envato\/envato-wordpress-toolkit\/engitechve\/master.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Envato Toolkit Download<\/a><a class=\"theme-button\" title=\"Envato Toolkit Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wpexplorer.com\/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Envato Toolkit Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Option 2: Manual Updates Via FTP\/SFTP Override<\/h3>\n<p>Of course you can always update by simply overriding all files via FTP or SFTP.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Download the \u201cInstallable WordPress file only\u201d&nbsp;from ThemeForest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: Access your server via FTP or SFTP (if you aren\u2019t sure how usually your webhost will have instructions somewhere on their site)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Upload to wp-content\/themes\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 4<\/strong>: Delete and override the \u201cengitech\u201d folder files with the new ones downloaded in step 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Important<\/strong>: Sometimes files are deleted inside the Theme so make sure that your program is deleting all files and uploading the new ones when it overrides instead of simply \u201cupdating newer files\u201d. It&nbsp;can cause issues if you have files on your server inside the theme that are no longer used in the theme itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engitech&nbsp;comes with the ability to update automatically via 2 different methods. You can use&nbsp;the Envato Toolkit for automatic theme updates and notifications or you can update manually via FTP\/SFTP. Before Updating:&nbsp;Before updating your theme make sure WordPress is up to date. The Engitech&nbsp;theme makes use of all new functions provided in WordPress to keep things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-04-get-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.oceanthemes.site\/engitech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}