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How to Upgrade to Thesis 1.8.3

Thesis 1.8.3 was just released a few days ago and in this session we demonstrate how to upgrade your Thesis Theme. We also discuss the importance of backing up your site before doing any upgrade to avoid losing any of your content and design in case there are any problems with the upgrade.

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Troubleshooting Thesis Installation Errors

Learn our strategies for troubleshooting Thesis installation errors. We use a member’s site to demonstrate our typical troubleshooting steps.

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Troubleshooting Thesis Installation Errors – Part 2 – Backup Existing Site

In this session, we perform a full site backup of the site before we go on to do a fresh Thesis and WordPress installation as the second part of troubleshooting the Thesis error that we encountered.

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Troubleshooting Thesis Installation Errors – Part 3 – Delete Old Core Files

In this session, we delete the core files of WordPress and Thesis before we do a fresh Thesis and WordPress installation as the third part of troubleshooting the Thesis error that we encountered.

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Troubleshoot Thesis Upgrade Problems

This member had problems after they upgraded from Thesis 1.7 to Thesis 1.8. They found that all of their customization was gone. The problem was that they hadn’t properly copied over their custom files from the old installation to the new. In this video I help them copy their files correctly and get their site [...]

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Troubleshooting Thesis Installation Errors – Part 4 – Reinstall WordPress

In this session, we install WordPress manually on the website. From here we can see the Thesis Menu at the admin funnel. The next thing we need to do is to restore the backup database to the new one.

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Upgrade from WordPress 2.9 to 3.1 and From Thesis 1.6 to 1.8

We show you how to upgrade WordPress from 2.9 to 3.1 and Thesis from 1.6 to 1.8 in this video. We begin by backing up our website using the EZ Backup plugin and downloading a copy of the database. After we deactivate all of our plugins we then upgrade WordPress. Following this we upgrade to [...]

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Troubleshooting a Broken Thesis Upgrade

In this session, we show how to troubleshoot a broken thesis upgrade. In this example when a plugin activation is attemped, the admin panel is knocked out. After an upgrade from thesis 1.8 to thesis 1.8.2 it continued not to work correctly. Video Transcript Rick: Okay so the next thing we’re going to then, in [...]

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Troubleshooting Thesis Installation Errors – Part 5 – Replace New Database with Backup

In this session, we are going to get rid of the new database and replace it with the backup database of the old site. Now the Thesis Menu is showing up and the site is back to normal, problem solved!

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Lesson 14 - Part 7 - How to upgrade Thesis

Lesson 14 – Part 7 – How to Upgrade Thesis

Next we’re going to learn how to upgrade Thesis. We’re back here at thesiscss.com and the version of Thesis we are currently using is version 1.8. We’re going to upgrade today to version 1.8.4 and the way we’re going to do that is by using FileZilla. Let’s connect to that site, wp-content and themes, you [...]

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Lesson 14 – Administrative Tasks

Configure Webmaster Tools – Watch the Video Add a site Verify Ownership Alternate method GA tracking code Add Sitemap Tour Webmaster Tools – Watch the Video Dashboard Site Configuration Diagnostics WordPress Backup Basics – Watch the Video Where WordPress Stores Information Database Files What to Backup? Database Customization Files Thesis Options WordPress “content” When to [...]

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