Upgrading to Pro Theme

[freedomdesign]

Hi there,

I have a website at

https://evergreen-cyclerevolution.com/

built with X, using X-Child.

I want to upgrade to Pro and am following the instructions here:

Converting from X to Pro | Themeco Docs

But I don’t find the directions for the Child Theme very clear.

I have added Pro to the plugins library.

I want to use Pro-child

I currently have X-Child active.

It says to change the header of X-Child, but how will it now to start using Pro as the base theme not X? DO I need to activate Pro once, then update the child theme?

Can you please spell it out clearly?

Thanks!

[ruenel]

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in! Do you have any modifications in the child theme? If you have, you will just have to update the X Child theme. There is no need to activate Pro theme. As long as the X Child theme is active, after you have updated the template name on it, it will automatically switch the base theme using Pro. And that is why you are instructed to edit your X Child theme’s style.css in Appearance > Editor and update the contents from:

/*

Theme Name: X – Child Theme
Theme URI: http://theme.co/x/
Author: Themeco
Author URI: http://theme.co/
Description: Make all of your modifications to X in this child theme.
Version: 1.0.0
Template: x

*/

into this one:

/*
Theme Name: Pro – Child Theme
Theme URI: http://theme.co/pro/
Author: Themeco
Author URI: http://theme.co/
Description: Make all of your modifications to Pro in this child theme.
Version: 1.0.0
Template: pro
*/

You will notice in the code that the Template were change from x to pro.

Hope this explains it briefly.

[freedomdesign]

OK, that makes sense. Thanks RueNel!

[ruenel]

You’re welcome @FreedomDesign!
We’re glad we were able to help you out.