I'm very much a newbie. I don't understand much about websites, HTML, PHP, etc. All I want to do is to upgrade my existing Atahualpa 3.3.3 theme to the latest 3.4.6, keeping the existing settings. It's ages since I did anything with themes, and I've forgotten how to do this.

I can't find any simple instructions anywhere -- Wordpress or BytesForAll. I can't be sure from the general Wordpress instructions that my settings will be preserved.

Can anyone help??

Thanks!

This may be helpful
http://forum.bytesforall.com/showpos...47&postcount=3

Thanks for this link. It describes how to get custom images into the upgraded theme.

But I'm afraid my question is even more basic!

At the top of his post, Juggledad talks about doing "an automatic upgrade". HOW DO I DO THAT?? The link it gave under Atahualpa theme options was only to download the zip file! There was no option for an automatic upgrade.

And if I upgrade automatically, does that mean it preserves all my other settings?

Thanks for your help!

If you expand on what juggledad says, do the following
- download the theme zip-file to your computer
- unzip the folder and make sure it is unpacked in a folder that has the name of the version, e.g. "atahualpa346"
- FTP the full folder as is to the wp-themes folder, snow wp-themes/atahualpa346
- In your WP dashboard, go to Themes > Add themes and you will see the new version of your theme
- Preview, then Activate

All settings are preserved, except for any edits you have made to the .php files. These will have to be copied over. The same goes for header images that you have added, which is what the post was referring to.

Thanks! I substituted my customised header image and stylesheet in the downloaded "Atahualpa346" folder (as per Juggledad's instructions). Then I uploaded the folder to the online wp-themes folder. So far so good.

But when it came to your 4th point -- "In your WP dashboard, go to Themes > Add themes and you will see the new version of your theme" -- I hit a brick wall. First, there's no "Add Themes", just "Add NEW Themes": is that what you meant? Second, when I clicked on that, Atahualpa346 did not appear. Only a Search parameters page. I searched for "Atahualpa346" and found nothing. I then searched for "Atahualpa", and found something that said it was ver. 3.4.6 -- but the preview looked nothing like what I have now! I didn't want to install that, in case it was the default version without my customised settings.

**Sigh!** What am I doing wrong or not understanding?

Go to dashboard->appearances->themes and pick the 3.4.6 version of atahualpa