When updating the theme, please follow the following 2 steps:
- Step 1 – Update the theme first;
- Step 2 – Then, please also update the Required Plugin: “CozyStay Core”.
Update Theme
Auto Update with Envato Market Plugin
We recommend Envato Market plugin. It can install WordPress themes and plugins purchased from ThemeForest & CodeCanyon by connecting with the Envato Market API using a secure OAuth personal token. Once your themes & plugins are installed WordPress will periodically check for updates, so keeping your items up to date is as simple as a few clicks.
You can download the plugin from its official download page: https://envato.com/market-plugin/. And then upload it to your site and install it.
Then go to Envato Market > Settings, click on the link to generate a personal token, and then insert it below, then save changes.
When generating your personal token, please use the same Envato account you used when purchased the theme, and make sure you have checked the following 3 permission options:
- View and search Envato sites
- Download your purchased items
- List purchases you’ve made
Once the Envato API connection is made from the Settings page, a list of available Themes will be shown. This will list all WordPress Themes that have been purchased through the Envato Market / ThemeForest. The page may look like this:
If there is a newer version for a theme or a plugin, it will show a notice, and you can update the item by clicking on the link Update Available.
Since the plugin checks for updates periodically, if you don’t see the update notification, please wait for a while.
You can find more instructions about this plugin on this page: https://envato.com/market-plugin/
Update Required Plugin
When updating CozyStay theme, if you also see this note:
“The following plugin needs to be updated to its latest version to ensure maximum compatibility with this theme: CozyStay Core.”
- Please click on Begin updating plugin link to update the CozyStay Core plugin. Alternatively, you can go to Appearance > Install Plugins.
- You can see the status of “CozyStay Core” is “Active, Requires Update”. And it also shows the Installed Version of “CozyStay Core” on your site, and you can find there are messages about Minimum required version and Available version. Please click on the Update link below “CozyStay Core”.
- After the plugin updated, please click on the “Return to Required Plugins Installer” link.
- You may see the plugin’s status “Installed But Not Activated”. If so, please click on the Activate link to reactivate the required plugin.
Clear Cache After Updating
If you have installed any cache plugin to optimize performance, such as the “W3 Total Cache” plugin, then, after updating the theme and the required plugin (or any other third-party plugins), you need to minify CSS again, and then clear the website cache.
For example, if you are using “W3 Total Cache”, please follow these steps:
- On your website dashboard, please navigate to the top admin bar > “Performance” > “Purge Modules” > click “Minify”.
- Then please click “Purge All Caches”.
- Click “Purge Modules > Page Cache: All”.
- Click “Purge Modules > Opcode Cache”.
- Then, please also clear the browser cache.
If you are using another cache plugin, you can also find similar features in the cache plugin.
If you do not perform these operations after the update, your site will still use the old minified JavaScript code and the previous cache files, resulting in a mismatch between the old code and the new code, resulting in errors and causing the site to not work properly.
Update Theme Manually
If you have issues with Envato Market Plugin, please try updating the theme manually.
- Please go to Downloads on ThemeForest, and find CozyStay > Click the “Download” button to expand and click “Installable WordPress File Only”.
- On your website dashboard, please go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Choose the zip file you just downloaded, click “Install Now“.
- WordPress will show you the version number of the CozyStay theme that already exists on your site, and the version number of the CozyStay theme you just uploaded. Please click “Replace active with uploaded“.
- When you see “Theme updated successfully”, navigate to Appearance > Install Plugins. Find “CozyStay Core“, and you will see a message that the plugin needs to be updated. Click “Update“.
- Please wait until you see “Plugin updated successfully” and “Plugin reactivated successfully”.
- If the plugin does not reactivated automatically, click “Return to Required Plugins Installer” and find “CozyStay Core” to activate it.
- Done.
Please watch this tutorial video for the details: