NOTE: IF you are hosting your site with 3001Web you can ignore this tutorial, we are taking care of your site updates for you.
All WordPress sites use a theme. If we built your site, it will normally be the Beaver Builder theme or Astra. Themes are regularly updated to work with new versions of WordPress or to add improvements or security fixes.
If 3001Web did not build your website, please be aware that updating your theme may remove changes you made when your site was built. If 3001Web did build your website, you have no need to worry, we will have used a child theme to protect any customization we did.
Good premium themes will allow you to simply click a link to update your theme. Others will require you to upload files, please contact your theme's provider for update help if that is the case.
How To Update Your Theme
FIRST BACK UP YOUR SITE, if you do not, you risk losing everything. Help on backing up your site can be found by clicking here.
Once the files and databases of your site have been backed up, log into your admin area for your site and do the following:
- In the left navigation, mouse over the word “Dashboard” then click “Updates”
- You will be told that your theme is out of date, so simply click the “update now” button.
- Wait for the update to finish.
- Check that your website still looks how it should.
That's it your theme is now updated.
Don't want the hassle of constantly updating your WordPress site? Why not upgrade to one of our FULLY MANGED WordPress hosting accounts? Then we will do ALL your updates for you.
If you do not host your site with us and do not want to move, you can still take advantage of our updates service here.
