Tom, the author of the Mandigo WordPress theme showed me the best way to avoid losing any customisation in the event he releases an upgrade to the theme.
He has built in some automation that makes it so easy – I’m really impressed with this theme!
The following video shows the steps to take – it can be done in minutes, so you have no excuses. Don’t run the risk of losing your customisation. Create your own customised scheme right away.
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I just upgraded my Mandigo Theme to version 1.39.
Simple to do of course. Just download, unzip and ftp to server.
But…
If you are doing the same please remember that if you’ve customised your site there may be some over-writing that you don’t want.
You may notice that I changed the “stars” that sit against headings to a curved arrow. I was lazy. I just created the image and named it star.gif and then over-wrote the original. I thought I was being clever as that was easier than going into the stylesheet and changing the image name there. I was thinking ahead too – I assumed the stylesheet would get overwritten in an upgrade and by leaving it standard I wouldn’t have to worry about going ahead with the upgrade.
I just forgot that the images would also get overwritten.
Just a warning in case you do the same thing.
