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This topic contains 3 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by  Gavin McMenemy 4 months ago.

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  • 12 Jun 2019 at 15:48 #3596

    Gavin McMenemy
    Participant

    Hi All,
    We’d like to bring our installation of this them up to spec.

    We’re currently on the version 4.34.3 and want to bring it up to the latest version.

    Also our installation of Word press is a version behind and we’d like to bring it to the latest. Our current version of WP is 4.4.1 and we’re aiming to bring it to Version 5.2.1

    I note that the theme isn’t reporting its name properly. It currently says “Theme Name” and the reason we’ve held off doing these upgrades for so long is that, in the past doing an upgrade on it has caused the WordPress white screen of Pain.

    And to be honest I don’t want to edit the MySQL by hand to fix it.

    are there any gotchas I should be aware of?

    Thanks.

  • 21 Jun 2019 at 12:30 #3599

    Leslie Liszcz
    Keymaster

    Hi Gavin,

    You should be able to use the theme with the latest version of WP. The main concern would be your server. Your server needs to be running a minimum of PHP 5.6 in order to use the latest version of WP.

    Hope that helps!

  • 21 Jun 2019 at 12:48 #3600

    Luke Oatham
    Keymaster

    Main theme updates since 4.34 deal with auto expiry of news stories and events.
    Some options (custom CSS and theme colours) have been moved to the WordPress customiser and away from the GovIntranet options – you may want to keep a copy of any custom CSS and colour settings just in case they get zapped!

  • 21 Jun 2019 at 12:59 #3601

    Gavin McMenemy
    Participant

    Hi Guys,

    Thanks for your reply.

    TBH: I just snapshotted the machine and went for it.

    It worked fine with only one minor snag (we need to use LDAP – which wasn’t enabled after the upgrade, and nothing to do with the theme).

    I’d actually done all of the prep work I needed to do by having PHP 7 available so we just went with that.

    Thanks again.

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