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Thesis Theme 1.7 Big, Fat, Green “Upgrade Thesis” Button

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Thesis Theme version 1.7 is out. This is probably good news in the long term, in the short term, just adds to my already overfull plate. I’m hungry, but not that hungry!

If you’re trying to upgrade Thesis Theme and you get this annoying big, fat green button like this:

Theme Theme "Upgrade Thesis" button

I can definitely help you out!

It took me a fair bit of poking around in the Thesis forums to figure it out, but this is how I did it, using material from the forum and the Thesis Database Page:

  1. You need to delete the options database items using the code as shown in the linked page, reproduced here (because it’s confusing there):
    delete_option('thesis_design_options');
    delete_option('thesis_options');
  2. Press the big, fat, green “Upgrade Thesis” button. This will do whatever it does, and return you to the Site Options page.
  3. Remove the delete_option code you just added in Step 1.
  4. You may have to repeat this step, press the “Upgrade Thesis” button again.

That’s all it took for me… running on my localhost installation. I’m about to start the upgrade here on Website In A Weekend.

Let me know if you have had to solve this problem as well, or how these directions worked for you.

Comments

  1. Ralph says:

    You know I bet you sell a lot more at $57 than at $.99. I was just thinking about grabbing it because my other blog is on Thesis and I never had the nerve to do anything to it. It is just one more thing I don’t have time to do right now.
    .-= Ralph´s last blog ..Saturday Quote =-.

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