How do I update a heavily customised theme without losing the mods

[Paul]

Paul

December 12, 2014 at 7:56 am

Hi Ben,

Here’s a good one for you from a guy who is stuck between developers (me):

My checkout is down at the busiest time of year and I think this is because I updated WooCOmmerce but not Virtue Premium and now I get the message telling me that my “theme has bundled outdated copies of WooCommerce template files”. (Full copy of the error message copied to the end of this email) You can see form the Templates info that there are lots of parts of the Virtue 1.4 that are out of date for teh current version of Woo Commerce.

It seems that I need to update to the latest version of Virtue Premium, but I think I would lose a lot of the numerous customisations which cost me money for developers (which I have now fired) to do.

Here are my questions I’m hoping you can help me out with:

It seems my developer didn’t make the changes with a child’s theme. Is there anyway of updating without losing all the customisations? Perhaps by retroactively setting up a child’s theme or exporting the current mods before updating and then importing the mods again?

If I make the update using the export options method as listed on this support page, which of the following mods would be kept?

– Significant mods to the CSS for a very different page master
– Extra fields added to the portfolio post page backend.
– A magnifying function for the product photos.

Thanks for your help!

Paul

Extra info:

Error message:

Your theme has bundled outdated copies of WooCommerce template files – if you encounter functionality issues on the frontend this could be the reason. Ensure you update or remove them (in general we recommend only bundling the template files you actually need to customize). See the system report for full details.

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