Updating Minimum Pro Theme (or others too?)

[lilifrancklyn]

hi,
I just realized that my Minimum Pro theme has not updated (I'm on 3.0.1 and Studio Press is on 3.2.1) I would have thought that would have happened when I updated Genesis, or that there would be some place in WordPress Admin where we would see an obvious button/way to update the theme? To do it manually, can I just upload the new theme into the "Themes" directory?

Thanks!
LEF

http://davebowden.tv

[Victor Font]

There are never notifications about child theme updates. In fact, there's very little reason, if any, to ever update a child theme. The child theme houses all of your customizations and changes. Updating them will cause you to lose all customizations. If you must update a child theme, it's a manual., tedious process to carry over your customizations. Child themes derive their core functionality from Genesis. Updating Genesis is all you should ever need.

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[Andrea Rennick]

Any minor child theme updates you see are minor things like css fixes, or spacing. Things you wont need to port back to your customized child theme.

That is the point of a child theme - to have a place for your custom code.

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[lilifrancklyn]

Hi Andrea,
Thanks for answering. so I did wipe out all my customizations unfortunately, but luckily i had a backup.

I do think that once upon a time in the past I created a child them of a Genesis theme, so a grandchild theme. Am I just imagining that ? Would it have been impossible? I tried to do it this time but it wouldn't let me because I got a message that Minimum Pro was already a child theme. But, I think this is something Studio Press ought to look into (allowing or facilitating somehow) because we don't want to be stuck with just the original theme in every feature. For instance the customization I created was to have a different banner image on each page, instead of one image for the entire site. That's a pretty big change, and when I pasted that code into the new Minimum Pro I got all sorts of fatal errors. I noticed that the new Minimum Pro shows a thumbnail of the backstretch image, and changed the name from "Background" to "Backstretch." That's why made me think I needed the new version - because it *looked* like significant updates. And I wanted more control over the backstretch image.

Thanks for all your great products!

Lili

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