Updating Your Theme

We strongly recommend installing the “Envato Toolkit” plugin for ease of use. Once the required plugin has been installed and activated, the “Envato Toolkit” menu will be available in your admin panel.

Important: If you are missing any plugins or are having trouble installing any of them, all the relevant files can be found in the “recommended-plugins” folder within the downloaded package.

User Account Information

To obtain your API key, visit your “My Settings” page on any of the Envato Marketplaces. Once a valid connection has been established, any changes made to the API key below for this username will not take effect for 5 minutes because they are cached in the database. If you have already established an API connection and have just purchased a theme but it isn’t showing up, wait five minutes and refresh the page. If the theme still isn’t showing up, it’s possible the author hasn’t made it available for automatic installation yet.

Marketplace Username: Enter your Envato Marketplace username.

Secret API Key: Enter your Envato marketplace Secret API Key (http://themeforest.net/user/[your-username]/api_keys/edit; log in to your Themeforest account, then go to Settings > API Key)

Backup Information

This plugin will automatically save your theme as a ZIP archive before performing an upgrade. The directory where these backups are saved is wp-content/envato-backups. However, if you encounter problems while attempting to upgrade, it is likely a permissions issue, and you may want to manually back up your theme before upgrading. Alternatively, if you do not want to back up your theme, you can check the box below.

Skip Theme Backup: We strongly recommend leaving this unchecked.

Alternative Way

You can also update the theme by replacing the old theme folder. First, go to your theme directory, then delete the theme folder and paste the new version of the theme.