bug fixes, special measures, etc
 

I've been using Atahualpa and very happy with it on several sites. My only issue has been the time that an upgrade of Atahualpa broke my WP-dTree menu system. When I inquired, helpful advice was given, involving bug fixes. At the time, I got my menus going by tinkering with some settings, but, since then, I have not updated Atahualpa for fear of breaking the menus again. I operate entirely through the WordPress system, doing updates from the dashboard.

My question is this: will an update of Athualpa result in need for bug fixes and tinkering with code? I can do a certain amount of that, but right now I can't afford to have the site down for the length of time it might take me to find info on this forum or such places. I understand that stuff happens. I'm not asking for absolutes, just for a reasonable assessment of the status of these changes. If there are measures to take before I attempt the upgrade, then I'd like to know what those are (bug-fixes?).

Thanks.

Take a look at the forum, there is currently only one patch for version 3.7.9

The easiest way is probably to copy make a copy of your current theme folder. Then you can update the theme, and if it doesn't work out for you, you can just revert back by changing theme to the Atahualpa in the other folder.