Updating custom wordpress theme

  • anthonycolli

    (@anthonycolli)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    I have created a custom WordPress theme from scratch and am wondering the process of sending and running updates to that theme if I do not have access to FTP. Right now I am doing it via uploading the zip file and updating the version number on the style.css file but I am getting the error “theme destination folder already exists”. So overall I just want to know the proper process of updating custom themes.

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • Michael Kracke

    (@krack3)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    There are 3 main ways to update a theme

        Upload it to the WordPress theme directory and manage updates there
        Link your theme to a repository like GitHub that will push the update for you
        Update the file via FTP/SFTP

    Without FTP access your best bet is to upload it to the WordPress theme directory.

    I guess you could delete the theme, and reupload it and reactivate it. As long as you don’t write code to erase whats in the database you’d only potentially lose widget content each time

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    9 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve used this to trigger updates from within WordPress to a theme I’ve put on github: https://github.com/afragen/github-updater

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