Title: Upgrading Nirvana Theme
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Upgrading Nirvana Theme

 *  [alexdobsonuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdobsonuk/)
 * (@alexdobsonuk)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/)
 * I have lost access to the Cryout Presentation page and theme customisation options.
   I am aware that there is a plugin to fix this issue but I am running a fairly
   old version of the Nirvana theme, v1.0.6. Can anyone tell me how to upgrade the
   theme without losing all of my changes etc please?

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 *  [Madhusudan Pokharel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhusudan977/)
 * (@madhusudan977)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/#post-6924999)
 * Hello alexdobsonuk,
    If you have made changes to your theme follow this tutorial:
   [https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/upgrade-wordpress-themes-even-if-they-are-customized/](https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/upgrade-wordpress-themes-even-if-they-are-customized/)
 * If you haven’t make changes to your theme then see this:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/)
 *  Thread Starter [alexdobsonuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdobsonuk/)
 * (@alexdobsonuk)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/#post-6925018)
 * Thanks. Was hoping there might be a way without compare and contrast.
 * Is it possible to roll back a WordPress update seen as it was v4.4 that caused
   the issue? Could I go back to 4.3?
 *  [Madhusudan Pokharel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhusudan977/)
 * (@madhusudan977)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/#post-6925022)
 * I found this topic on support which might be helpful to you.
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-page-doesnt-work-after-wp-44-update?replies=15](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-page-doesnt-work-after-wp-44-update?replies=15)
 *  Thread Starter [alexdobsonuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexdobsonuk/)
 * (@alexdobsonuk)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/#post-6925041)
 * The Nirvana support pages suggests the following as an update method. As I have
   customised the parent theme I am a little nervous about doing it. Has anyone 
   else tried it?
 * If you absolutely want to perform the update manually, the procedure would be
   to:
    export the theme settings using the built-in export functionality switch
   your site to a different theme (a Twenty-something should be fine) from Appearance
   > Themes, delete the theme re-install the theme (if you don’t remember how, follow
   our installation tutorial) re-activate the theme you should find all settings
   as you left them; if anything goes wrong, use the export you made before to restore
   the settings
 * If FTP is comfortable for you, you can also simply re-upload and overwrite the
   existing files with the latest version.
 *  [thezedt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thezedt/)
 * (@thezedt)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/#post-6925167)
 * alexdobsonuk, if you’ve made changes to the theme files, you should start by 
   transferring those changes to a child theme. Depending on the changes, some are
   easy to transfer, some are next to impossible (but not quite impossible).
 * After you are sure your code changes are in a child theme and they work, only
   then you can update the theme.
 * Configurations done in the theme settings page are not file customizations and
   are kept between updates (but it’s never a bad idea to make backups – at least
   using the theme’s export functionality)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-nirvana-theme/#post-6925167)
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