{"id":319,"date":"2019-05-23T01:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:05:21","slug":"theme-update-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/theme-update-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Update Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend completing the following checklist before updating your theme to the latest version. As always, please <a href=\"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/docs\/requests\/\">submit a support request<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> &#8211; Install and run the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/updraftplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Updraft Plus WordPress Backup<\/a> plugin or check with your website to verify you can restore a daily or weekly backup, if needed<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong> &#8211; Verify that you have the current version of WordPress installed, update if needed<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong> &#8211; Verify that you are running a PHP version from 8.0 to 8.4, contact your host if needed<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong> &#8211; Install and activate the latest version of your theme<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong> &#8211; Install and run the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/force-regenerate-thumbnails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Force Regenerate Thumbnails<\/a> plugin<\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong> &#8211; Comply with any onscreen notices that may appear (e.g., Run the Updater)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7<\/strong> &#8211; Refer to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/docs\/\">theme documentation<\/a> for theme setup and configuration<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/theme-update-guidelines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Theme Update Guidelines\"><p>We recommend completing the following checklist before updating your theme to the latest version. As always, please submit a support request if you have any questions. 1 &#8211; Install and run the Updraft Plus WordPress Backup plugin or check with your website to verify you can restore a daily or weekly backup, if needed 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tutorials","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyminimal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}