Update Theme
Things to know before you update the theme:
The Logic of Updating a theme in Shopify platform:
Concept is the same as any other Shopify themes in Shopify platform. That is when a new update version released, it will be a core theme source, independent from the previous ones you are using. Thus, your changes on the previous versions will not be included in the update.
To update the theme to the latest version, you can follow our next instructions. We will guide you how to update theme and help you save your settings.
Any custom works/ customizations/ changes which are not available from theme core default will be lost and needs customization from the starting point.
Remember: The instructions below are applied to update the theme without losing default settings in Theme Editor (Not including the customization and app's code). All custom works which were changed in our theme files will not be updated and have to be redone manually.
About the apps you installed, you might need to install them again. We recommend you contact the app provider to have support because we're not able to handle the app's code.
Starting your update:
You should duplicate your current theme to avoid issues (if any) when updating the theme.
Go to your account on Themeforest to download the latest theme source.
Upload the latest theme source into your store.
There are some files that need to be copied to maintain your modifications in the latest theme source
01: Update for Theme Settings:
Go to the old theme source -> Edit Code -> Open this file settings_data.json and COPY ALL codes.
Go to the new theme source which you just installed into your site -> Edit Code -> Open this file settings_data.json, delete and PASTE codes you just copied into this file.
02: Update for Home Page:
Go to the old theme source -> Edit Code -> Open this file index.json and COPY ALL codes.
Go to the new theme source which you just installed into your site -> Edit Code -> Open this file index.json, delete and PASTE codes you just copied into this file.
03: Update for Header:
Go to the old theme source -> Edit Code -> Open this file header-group.json and COPY ALL codes.
Go to the new theme source which you just installed into your site -> Edit Code -> Open this file header-group.json, delete and PASTE codes you just copied into this file.
04: Update for Footer:
Go to the old theme source -> Edit Code -> Open this file footer-group.json and COPY ALL codes.
Go to the new theme source which you just installed into your site -> Edit Code -> Open this file footer-group.json, delete and PASTE codes you just copied into this file.
05: Update for other Pages:
Repeat the procedure: Copy codes in file from old theme source, go to the corresponding file in new theme source, delete and PASTE codes you just copied for other pages:
Collection List Page => list-collections.json
Collection Page => collection.json
Product Page => product.json
Blog Page => blog.json
Blog Detail Page => article.json
For Inner pages such as: About us, Contact us... => Search "page." to see the corresponding files
For any other pages you have created yourself, they are not included in the newer theme sources.
To keep the same layout + settings of pages, please go to Edit Code -> Templates -> Search .json to see all files of page template.
Copy codes in file from the old theme source, go to the corresponding file in new theme source, delete and PASTE codes you just copied.
06: Update for Language files:
Go to the old theme source -> Edit Code -> Locales
Open the file of your languages. Example we are using German, we will open de.json file
Copy all codes in the language file from the old theme source and go to the corresponding language file in new theme source, delete and PASTE codes you just copied.
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