Update theme

When a designer updates a theme in the Shopify Theme Store with bug fixes and added features, those changes are not automatically added to your own theme. There is no automatic or manual way to run updates on your installed themes.

How to update theme and save theme settings

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1. Create copy of you current theme: Online store -> Themes -> Actions -> Duplicate.

2. Download your current theme

3. Unzip your current theme.

4. Rename your current theme's folder to martfury-Current

5. Download the up-to-date (latest) version from https://themeforest.net/downloads.

6. Unzip the latest theme.

7. Rename the latest theme's folder to martfury-Latest-Version

8. Copy theme settings file config/settings_data.json from current theme to latest theme. martfury-Current/config/settings_data.json -> martfury-Latest-Version/config/settings_data.json

9. Compress martfury-Latest-Version folder (.zip format)

10. Upload martfury-Latest-Version.zip to your store at Online store -> Themes -> Upload theme

11. Reinstall apps.

Why are there no automatic updates of themes in Shopify?

This is because themes are often customized by merchants, and automatic updates would overwrite those customizations. Software and apps can be routinely updated, but themes are designed to be customizable by you to suit your needs and reflect your brand. If we ran automatic updates on themes, you would lose all of your customizations.