Update of Genesis Framework Went Badly!

[LWVaustin]

Right now my site is basically down, so I need help quickly, please.

I just purchased the Genesis Framework Package. We have been using it for almost a decade but updates stopped arriving a year ago or so. After purchasing the package, I was trying to update the theme. There seemed to be no way to get the prompt within the WP admin area that a new version was available so I went to plan B, which is to use FTP to do the update from V2.x.x to 3.3.2. I backed up the Genesis folder on the site, so I have that tucked away, just in case. Then I used SmartFTP to copy the new genesis folder into the Themes folder - overwriting what was there. This went OK but when I looked at the site it doesn't have any of the theme attributes present. I'm using the Education child theme and never touched that folder. I have removed the cache on my browser. I cleared an SSO cache in WP. Site still looks this $ht. (see lwvaustin.org)

Is there some other step I need to do after copying all the Genesis files & folders? One place said "refresh you site" but I have no idea what that means.

Thanks!

http://lwvaustin.org

[Victor Font]

If you have an older XHTML theme, the 3.x versions of Genesis won't work with it. With older, incompatible themes, you wouldn't have received a prompt to update Genesis.

Restore from a recent backup.

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Regards,

Victor
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[LWVaustin]

Victor: Thank you. I did find a blog that told about this conflict after I made this post. I did revert to the backup version.

I wish there had been better notification of this on the StudioPress website that I would have seen before making the purchase to upgrade. And maybe a sticky post in here about upgrading to 3.xx.

Thanks!

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