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Upgrading from Free to Premium Vantage Theme

10 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 10 years ago

I have created my site using the free template and have made changes to styles.css and functions.php. I think i may have made other changes but am not sure. What is the best way to back up my files and then reapply any changes I have made after I upgraded to premium?

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  1. Greg Priday Staff 10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Metalerector

    Sorry for the late reply here. What I’d suggest doing is creating a child theme and copy across all the changes you’ve made so they’re in the child theme instead of the main Vantage theme.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    Once you’re happy everything is across, log into your server using FTP, navigate to wp-content/themes/ and rename the vantage folder to something like vantage-free. Then install Vantage Premium from the ZIP file we sent you.

    Please let us know how things go and if you need help with any of these steps.

  2. metalerector 10 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for your suggestion! Also, in the future if I update the theme via wordpress, will it replace any changes i’ve made in those files?

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Metalerector

    Any changes made directly to theme files in the parent theme will be overwritten during theme updates. Any edited files stored in a child theme are update safe. This is common to all WordPress themes.

    Hope that helps. Let us know if we can assist further.

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