Comments on: Upgrading Thesis

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:40:20 +0000

Farnoosh-welcome to Mike’s Thesis Theme Tools. No worries! You are in the right place for info, answers and good guidance. I have a lot of respect for his contribution and his vast knowledge…BTW, nice blog you have.

By: Farnoosh

Farnoosh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:22:36 +0000

I have put this off long enough. I LOVE Thesis as much as you do – Best Theme out there – and just saw the link to this guide from Thesis Forums. I was so afraid upgrade would go haywire when it first came out but it is seriously time for me to upgrade. Will follow your guidelines here thank you!!!

By: bedo8

bedo8 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:10:52 +0000

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By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:04:25 +0000

I just upgraded Thesis to 1.6. Could not find the Design feature till I changed the customs-sample folder to customs…then wheeeeeeeeeeeee, what fun I discovered! Options to change link, and text colors!

I first made a folder on the same level as the customs-sample folder (inside the file management on the cPanel)…then I opened up the customs-sample folder and selected all files and “move to” the customs folder. Then I deleted customs-sample folder.
As far as the permissions, no idea if that was changed. Have to look at that again. I’m using Lunar pages and dif from Hostgator. BUT, for fun I changed colors of text and links on a new niche blog I’m playing with for college class, and IT WORKED!

I LOVE Thesis for many reasons. But still need to give credit to Mike for this awesome website for us newbies. He always knows how to tweak something before it becomes a main feature. Keep up the great work, Mike! Your time helping us is very much appreciated… (and one of the reasons I am a loyal return reader!)

By: Tristan lee

Tristan lee — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:41:58 +0000

Oh no! What if we didn’t change the permissions and then activated it already? *gulp*

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:07:07 +0000

Thanks for the tips on updating some of the permissions. Question…I have a Thesis skin I want to use, but in order for it to work I need to change the name of the thesis folder from thesis_151 to just thesis (in my FTP program.) Well, I did this and it broke the theme. Any suggestions? Thanks!

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:21:33 +0000

Sharon,
If you’ve previously installed a version of Thesis correctly, one of the steps was to rename the custom-sample/ folder to custom/.
Hence, when you come to upgrade Thesis, you’d back up custom/. If you hadn’t used anything custom yet (and it was still named custom-sample), then that’s fine – you’d backed up the right folder.

@Mike:
I would strongly disagree with deleting custom-sample – it may contain (as the latest 1.6 betas do) other files that have been moved from other folders. Better instructions would be to rename custom-sample/ to custom/, then copy over custom.css, custom_functions.php, contents of custom/images/ and custom/cache/ (and also rotator folder and for 1.6+).

By: sharon

sharon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:37:51 +0000

“3. Copy the /custom folder you backed up in Step 1, and paste it into the new Thesis 1.5.1 folder.”
I only see a “custom-sample” folder, not “custom”. I backed up that one, but see in next step you say “There will be a /custom-sample folder in the new Thesis folder you uploaded in step 2. Delete it, as it will not be needed.” Do you know what I’m doing wrong?