Theme Update

If you already have a website created with an older version of FlatBook (< 3.0) and want to use the current version, you will have to create your content again. It’s really important to create a safety backup of your existing website and database before doing anything, so if something may went wrong while recreating your contents, you can easily set everything back to the default state. For this purpose, you can use one of the free backup plugins from the WordPress plugin directory, like All-in-One WP Migration then install the new theme files.

Note: If you would like to use the latest 3.2 update, and you are using an older version of FlatBook (before v3.0), when you update the theme you will have to create your website again.

There are two ways of updating the theme to the latest version, you can learn more about them below.

Envato Market Plugin

The Envato Market Plugin helps you to receive updates to your themes purchased through ThemeForest. The plugin Settings Page allows you to configure your Envato API Personal Token.

This API Token is generated from build.envato.com and will allow WordPress to securely receive item updates. Once the Envato API connection is made from the Settings page, a list of available Themes will be shown. Any available theme updates can be applied here.

  1. Download and install the Envato Market WordPress plugin
  2. Activate the plugin, and follow the steps below the Getting Started (Simple) box
  3. Enter your Envato API Personal Token and click on Save Changes
  4. Select the Themes tab at the top, and the update will be shown (if have)

Manual Update

If you don’t want to or can’t use the Envato Market Plugin, you can always update the theme manually:

  1. Check the current version number of the theme in the Change Log
  2. Go to Appearance » Themes and comprare your theme version number with it
  3. If different, dowload the current build of the theme from ThemeForest
  4. Extract the theme package and unzip the main theme file flatbook.zip
  5. Connect to your server via FTP and replace the original theme folder with the new one at ../wp-content/themes/