This is important for anyone running a Genesis child theme on a self-hosted WordPress site. All of our WordPress themes are built using Genesis, so if you’ve purchased a theme from us, listen up!
WordPress 4.3 is scheduled to be released sometime next week. You must update to Genesis 2.1.3 before upgrading to WordPress 4.3. If you don’t, you could lose some taxonomy term meta data, like certain SEO data or settings.
How To Update to Genesis 2.1.3
Updating Genesis is pretty easy, and if you keep up on your updates, you already know how to do this! I always recommend backing up your site before you update anything, so make sure you’ve done that before you complete these steps.
1. Click the “upgrade now” link in the update notification at the top of the WordPress dashboard page. It looks like this:
2. Confirm the upgrade.
3. Once it has been installed, click the link to complete the upgrade.
4. That’s it!
I don’t see an update available for Genesis…?!?!?
Genesis 2.1.3 was just released a few days ago. If you don’t have the update available, you should shortly. Updates don’t always appear at the same time for everyone. Keep an eye out for when it does show up and update as soon as it appears!
Jessica says
10/3/15 at 12:40 amOh no I did not know this and it automatically updated my wordpress. How do I update genesis with wordpress already updated? I tried to update genesis before I knew about this and got the white screen of death so I just undid the update. Help? 🙂
Ashley says
10/4/15 at 12:08 pmHi there, what versions of WordPress & Genesis are you running right now? There has been a later release of Genesis since 2.1.3. I think the best bet would be to install the latest version. Are you given a notice in your dashboard about installing it? If so, what version?
Jessica says
10/4/15 at 11:57 pmThanks 🙂 it’s telling me to run version 2.2.2 of Genesis. I have WordPress 4.3.1.
Ashley says
10/5/15 at 11:03 amI think you should be able to update without any problem. Can you make a back-up (in case you encounter the white screen of death) and try updating again?
Hans says
12/26/15 at 9:35 amHi,
how i updae genesi from 2.1.3 to 2.2.5 ?
I do not see the update option.
Installing the complete theme new?
Greetings
Ashley says
12/31/15 at 11:04 amThe updates appear at different times for different people, so if you haven’t seen the link to upgrade yet, it should appear soon (within a week).