hello
firstly, is remiss not to get back any earlier but I’ve been away for a bit. I do apologise as obviously you’ve been been making repeat efforts
to help here ..
In brief, the error as it pops up in WP is as follows:
Your theme (Lyn child theme) contains outdated copies of some WooCommerce template files. These files may need updating to ensure they are compatible with the current version of WooCommerce. You can see which files are affected from the system status page. If in doubt, check with the author of the theme.
Following a link it provides, I eventually end up at WooCommerce page describing steps to take to update templates manually (my theme is not desinged to run WooCommerce nor declaring support, and so is not updating them itself):
https://docs.woothemes.com/document/fix-outdated-templates-woocommerce/
Having reached this point however, I fall at the first step because no templates on my system appear to be reporting as outdated in my WooCommerce > System Status page.
(there seems to be no info provided on templates whatsoever, either to approve versions or report errors. I could send some screenshots perhaps, but I don’t believe I can do so in this forum)
As the steps instruct that you replace only the specific template files that are outdated, I can’t see that there’s much I can do. And in any case, I’m loathe to mess with anything as the website itself seems to be running fine and I’m hearing myself say ‘if it an’t broke don’t fix …’
So this brings me back to the original reason for posting really- am I running a unjustified security risk here, or can I (on my client’s behalf) relax.. ?
many thanks –
Tom