Headache-free upgrade from 2.7 to 2.8?

  • Hi all.

    A couple of days ago I upgraded from 2.7 to 2.8. No big deal, fully automatic procedure.

    I lost a couple of widgets in the process; but that was easily fixed.

    What wasn’t so funny was losing all my customizations to the theme. I had changed many colors, column widths, etc. All of those were gone in 2.8. So I put 2.7 back…

    Question: how do I avoid this? I have full backups of everything; but simply putting those back obviously doesn’t help.

    Can anyone tell me which files exactly to put back, after the upgrade? Or: is there a way to save the theme settings only?

    Thanks,

    Erik

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  • Had you modified the default or classic theme? These modifications can be lost on upgrade unless you give your modified theme a new name (in styles.css) and a new directory name.

    Thread Starter k5ww

    (@k5ww)

    I modified the default (Kubrik) theme.

    Thanks for your tip. I’ll see what I can do with that, sounds easy enough.

    Thread Starter k5ww

    (@k5ww)

    Well, I upgraded again. This time with a renamed themes directory, etc.

    Had to put my widgets back (just like last time) but boy this time (in 2.8) it’s a heck of a lot easier!

    I’m a little disappointed that the Pages order is still buggy, but it’s a minor issue…

    Thread Starter k5ww

    (@k5ww)

    Woops! I gotta take that back, about the Pages order. Obviously I missed something; and it’s working A-OK now!

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