Minimosity

1. What is the best way to update the theme without losing my settings on the Theme Options?

2. Why am I getting a "missing stylesheet" error when installing the theme?

3. How do I import the demo.xml file?

Update via FTP

Please note:
make a backup of the Theme inside your WordPress installation folder /wp-content/themes/themename/

To update the Theme, login to ThemeForest, head over to your downloads section and re-download the theme like you did when you bought it.

Extract the zip contents, look for the extracted theme folder, and after you have all the new files upload them using FTP to the /wp-content/themes/themename/ folder overwriting the old ones (this is why it's important to backup any changes you've made to the theme files).

SNEWS Changelog

MightyMag Changelog

PowerMag Changelog

If you didn't make any changes to the theme files, you are free to overwrite them with the new ones without the risk of losing theme settings, pages, posts, etc, and backwards compatibility is guaranteed.

Alternative Solution:

If you prefer an automatic solution, you can use the Envato Wordpress Toolkit plugin as well. Since this is a third party plugin though its usage isn't covered by regular theme support.

Useful links:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-update-themeforest-themes-with-the-envato-wordpress-toolkit/

https://github.com/envato/envato-wordpress-toolkit

A common issue that can occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a “Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error message being displayed when trying to upload or activate the theme. This error message does not mean that the theme you have purchased is broken, it simply means it has been uploaded incorrectly. Luckily, there is a very easy fix.

To import the demo.xml please follow this steps:

• Log into your site as an administrator.
• Make sure you activated your new theme before proceeding.
• Go to Tools → Import
• Choose “WordPress” from the list.
• Upload the demo content .xml using the form provided on that page.
• You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
• You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
• Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported.

Note: You will still need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.