Right procedure to update themes

[jarihParticipant]

I think I have a problem with this, wrong procedure to update. My update history:

My original procedure:

– SYS 2.6.5. (symbiostock.zip) -> /themes/symbiostock
– CHILD (symbiostock-child.zip) -> /themes/symbiostock-child

And continue, my update prosedure:

– SYS 2.9.4. (symbiostock-2.zip) -> /themes/symbiostock-2
– DRAG CHILD (symbiostock-dragonfly.zip) -> /themes/symbiostock-dragonfly

Now I figure this is one problem, if zip is names symbiostock + something.. everything goes badly. Now dragon refers to 2.6.5. because it’s on /themes/symbiostock

So, I tried delete 2.6.5 (2.6.5. and any child was not activated, only 2.9.4. was activated), WP crash totally. I used bluehost backup to come back to life.

So, what is the right prosedure to update, not mess everything 🙂

[cascolyBlocked]

activate another theme (eg 2012)
then install the theme from the appearance/themes page — make sure the zip is named symbiostock.zip
then activate symbiostock – then activate any child themes

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you may need to delete the symbiostovck folder before starting (or just rename it)

[jarihParticipant]

Thank you, this help much and it’s done, I:

– activate 2012 theme
– removed old /themes/symbiostock -folder
– renamed wrong forder symbiostock-2 to symbiostock
– activated 2.9.4 symbiostock
– activated dragonfly child

Now child is beautiful and my original problem disappeared, images on one row! Maybe it was something to do with extra folders?

But ofcourse now is something new issues.. Sarari looks nice, but on Firefox (I don’t know anything about IE right now):

– only 5 images on line (featured images, latest images and search)
– bottom of sites is extra gray box

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