Updating your current WordPress theme is necessary. It will help your site getting smooth functionality, lesser bugs and most importantly protect your site from security issues.
Remember that to update a theme on your WordPress theme should be already installed and the developers of that theme should publish a new update of the theme.
However, on your side, updating a theme is pretty easy. This guide will help you how to update a WordPress theme in a few simple steps.
- First of all, login to your admin dashboard.
- If your installed themes have any recent update it will appear as a notification on the update section of the admin panel. Find the update section just next to the dashboard option on the left menu.
- Click on updates. It will now take you to the panel where all kind update related to your WordPress will appear.
Scroll down and find the theme section to see whether theme update is available or not.
- If any theme appears under the theme update section then select the checkbox of that theme.
- Now click on the “update theme”.
- It will take a few seconds to update the theme and will come up with a success message upon completion of the update.
These are the steps that you should follow every time you want to update a theme.
