I have taken over the maintenance and fixing for a client and they were using a very old copy of the Salient theme (with a child). I advised updating this and purchased an up-to-date licence in order to apply the updates and get them onto a newer version of PHP. This was all successful.
They have the licence installed on their site, though I purchased the theme under my login.
My question is this: does the theme always have to be updated using the manual method i.e. through email notification and then download and upload? The client is not that technical and though I have been (and will be) doing work on the site, it is not a monthly retainer so they do plugin updates themselves.
Is there a reason why the theme does not show that an update is available in the Themes panel, as with other themes? Is there a way to do this or is it only using the manual method?
Right now the theme does not have a feature to notify users of updates. Will inform the developers about that. There is the other method for updating the theme that is by use of the Envato market plugin that is - https://themenectar.com/docs/salient/updating-salient/
If you set it up you can get a notification and also it makes updating a bit easier. Hope this helps.
Good morning
I have taken over the maintenance and fixing for a client and they were using a very old copy of the Salient theme (with a child). I advised updating this and purchased an up-to-date licence in order to apply the updates and get them onto a newer version of PHP. This was all successful.
They have the licence installed on their site, though I purchased the theme under my login.
My question is this: does the theme always have to be updated using the manual method i.e. through email notification and then download and upload? The client is not that technical and though I have been (and will be) doing work on the site, it is not a monthly retainer so they do plugin updates themselves.
Is there a reason why the theme does not show that an update is available in the Themes panel, as with other themes? Is there a way to do this or is it only using the manual method?
Thank you!
Hi there,
Right now the theme does not have a feature to notify users of updates. Will inform the developers about that. There is the other method for updating the theme that is by use of the Envato market plugin that is - https://themenectar.com/docs/salient/updating-salient/
If you set it up you can get a notification and also it makes updating a bit easier.
Hope this helps.
Ah I wasn't aware of that, thanks Noah, will check it out.