Here’s honest truth about updating:
- Your data won’t be lost. No updates will erase data. All the updating does is replacing old theme files, It never touches database part.
- However things might not work well if you have a very outdated theme version. For instance, updating from v2.7 (10 years ago) → v7.0 (today), the layout has potential to break.
- Rule of thumbs before updating is always have a backup, at hosting level. Usually, hosting has backups that allow you to rollback if anything went wrong (your site being attacked/hacked, plugins/themes updates fail..) but please be sure about it.
There are 2 methods to update The Fox theme.
- Method 1:Using Envato Market plugin
- Method 2:Update Manually
Update by Envato Market Plugin
You purchased The Fox theme from Envato, the Envato Market plugin is a mean to manage all your themes and plugins, not only The Fox. After installing and setting up the plugin, from now on you’ll receive update nag right in your backend like WordPress.org themes.
Here’s the plugin page: https://www.envato.com/lp/market-plugin/. Please download it there, follow instructions to install it and after installing, you’ll see set up instructions in the backend.
Update manually
Another method to update The Fox is to update it manually.
- Go to your download page, find Fox theme to download latest version.
- If you download the full package from ThemeForest, you must unzip it and find
fox.zipfile. That’s the actual theme file. If you downloaded “installable WordPress only”, skip this step. - Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes > Upload Theme
- Upload the file you have just downloaded then hit Install Now.
- It’ll ask you if you want to replace current with uploaded or cancel & go back. Choose “Replace current with uploaded”. Now you have The Fox latest version.